Pearl S. Buck

Nothing is menial where there is love. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#inspirational

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#writing-craft #writing-craft

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#faith

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#destiny #education #fate #ignorance #self-determination

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#woman #women #anger

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#opening-lines #marriage

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#good #itself #life #man #marriage

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #empowerment #inequality #men #women

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#men and women #mutual #own #possession #should

Hunger makes a thief of any man. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#hunger #makes #man #thief