It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority. Pearl S. Buck giving-upwhitemen A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready. Pearl S. Buck escapingacceptancemean starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. Pearl S. Buck unnecessaryhungerworld For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth. Pearl S. Buck evilgivingmen In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. Pearl S. Buck geographythings-changeworld Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. Pearl S. Buck debtlostmen I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence. Pearl S. Buck landaircountry The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it. Pearl S. Buck landscapegrowspeople Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve. Pearl S. Buck principlesmenpeople You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free. Pearl S. Buck wallstronghands Nothing is menial where there is love. Pearl S. Buck What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation. Pearl S. Buck rightshousemen There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses. Pearl S. Buck coursesdifferences It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. Pearl S. Buck ugly-womenuglyfirsts Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action. Pearl S. Buck visionmindmen I am mentally bifocal. Pearl S. Buck Most mothers kiss and scold together. Pearl S. Buck mothers-daymotherhoodmom Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction Pearl S. Buck motherwritingwind The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women. Pearl S. Buck realappreciationbelieve I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love. Pearl S. Buck homehappy-lifechildren
