Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes. — Alice James Copy Share Image
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose an infinitely richer, sweeter domestic harmony than the palace; and the peaceful cotton-spinner win victories beside which those of the reverberating general are dust and ashes -- let us not waster the sacred fire and wear… — Alice James Copy Share
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James Copy Share Image
