Zona Gale

“To be alive and to be aware is a terrific combination.”

“I know now that there are men, many men, who are tender and sensitive and responsive, as well as men who are not.”

“Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been... a long going forward.”

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

“And I think that the ultimate homage to the great is to be able to laugh at them.”

“So often we think that to be patient is to show great strength. But to be impatient...is not showing weakness; it is showing a great zest for life.”

“There must be some way to be a woman and not have to live with men.”

“For what is there but remembering, and forgetting?”

“Friendship is a strange, strange thing. It is like a feather beating against a window pane.”

“But there are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most important quality in a person is to be interesting.”

“Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's earning strength and it's needing strength.”

“All things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an ear of corn, they are all one.”