
“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Source: Incantation
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Source: Incantation
Letter to children (February 1947) http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/letter.html
Context: The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
"Dirty Laundry"
Song lyrics, I Can't Stand Still, 1982
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
Letter to Bertrand Russell (7 December 1916), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
Tel Quel (1943)