QUOTES

 Let me introduce you, today, to Pearl S. Buck.  A prolific writer from the early 20th century, she was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.  She grew up in China; the daughter of missionaries and became one herself.  Her most famous novel, The Good Earth, was located there.  Ms. Buck died in 1973 at the age of 80.

"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."

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."  

"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."

"I believe that the normal human heart is born good.  That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live.  It wishes neither to be killed nor to kill.  If through circumstances it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil.  There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration."

"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne."

"aThe person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.  His heart withers if his heart does not answer another heart.  His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."