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

Stichwörter: writing-craft writing-and-editing



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It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

Pearl S. Buck


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I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

Pearl S. Buck


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I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said.
"Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side.
"When may I paint a picture of my own?" Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. "When I can no longer command you.

Pearl S. Buck


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les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .

Pearl S. Buck

Stichwörter: rêve français seul



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

Pearl S. Buck

Stichwörter: education empowerment men women inequality double-standards women-s-liberation women-s-rights



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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."

(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

Pearl S. Buck

Stichwörter: empowerment women prison inequality double-standards women-s-liberation women-s-rights abilites



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

Pearl S. Buck

Stichwörter: empowerment equality gender men women world women-s-liberation women-s-rights



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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Pearl S. Buck

Stichwörter: empathy indifference prejudice race bigotry



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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

Stichwörter: education choice fate ignorance understanding self-determination destiny



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