Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
