How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share
