Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.
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Love alone could waken love.
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.