As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226. "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place" has sometimes been quoted as her original statement, though she states that she herself is quoting an abbot.

“These Chinese novels are not perfect according to Western standards. They are not always planned from beginning to end, nor are they compact, any more than life is planned or compact. They are often too long, too full of incident, too crowded with character, a medley of fact and fiction as to material, and a medley of romance and realism as to method, so that an impossible event of magic or dream may be described with such exact semblance of detail that one is compelled to belief against all reason”

Pearl S. Buck

The Chinese Novel (1938)

“Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.”

Pearl S. Buck

Of Men and Women (1941), Ch. 8

“There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.”

Pearl S. Buck

Harper’s Magazine (August 1938), p. 232

“Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.”

Pearl S. Buck

The Chinese Novel (1938)

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

Pearl S. Buck

What America Means to Me (1943)

“In any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. … I came home more torn in heart than any child should be, for I saw that each side was right as well as wrong, and I yearned over both in a helpless fashion, unable to see how, history being what it was, anything now could be done.”

Pearl S. Buck

Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 61

“Out of this folk mind, turned into stories and crowded with thousands of years of life, grew, literally, the Chinese novel. For these novels changed as they grew. If, as I have said, there are no single names attached beyond question to the great novels of China, it is because no one hand wrote them. From beginning as a mere tale, a story grew through succeeding versions, into a structure built by many hands.”

Pearl S. Buck

The Chinese Novel (1938)

“One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful.”

Pearl S. Buck

A Bridge for Passing (1962)

“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”

Pearl S. Buck

Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 192

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

Pearl S. Buck

Source: What America Means to Me (1943), Ch. 4

“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.”

Pearl S. Buck

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Misattributed

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

Pearl S. Buck

Source: To My Daughters, With Love (1967), pp. 137 http://books.google.com/books?id=adgpB1mSo24C&q=%22some+are+kissing%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage– 138 http://books.google.com/books?id=adgpB1mSo24C&q=%22mothers+and+some+are+scolding+mothers+but+it+is+love+just+the+same+and+most+mothers+kiss+and+scold+together%22&pg=PA138#v=onepage