Taylor Caldwell

“It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough. -- A Prologue to…

— Taylor Caldwell

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

— Taylor Caldwell

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

— Taylor Caldwell

“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why…

— Taylor Caldwell

I will know him by his eyes.

— Taylor Caldwell

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

— Taylor Caldwell

“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far…

— Taylor Caldwell

“Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.”

— Taylor Caldwell

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

— Taylor Caldwell

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the…

— Taylor Caldwell

At 8, I made a pact with God.

— Taylor Caldwell

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope,…

— Taylor Caldwell

“On the day when you again allow abominable men to confiscate your freedom, your money, your lives, your private property, your manhood…

— Taylor Caldwell

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

— Taylor Caldwell

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

— Taylor Caldwell

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

— Taylor Caldwell

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

— Taylor Caldwell

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

— Taylor Caldwell

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

— Taylor Caldwell

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

— Taylor Caldwell

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

— Taylor Caldwell

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

— Taylor Caldwell

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the…

— Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

— Taylor Caldwell