Quotessence
Home / Authors / Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Writer

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenIfsPeopleKnowsHumansWorldMindCountryEarthMay

Famous Pearl S. Buck Quotes

“For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.”

MenLittlesMadeWarRealDoneProblemRunningEmotionLaughingImpossibleOne ThingNeededActivityOrdinaryHatredLikesBehavePregnancyChildbirthReal ProblemsCensure
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”

FirstsLongMadeSelfEnergyProcessGrowthEmotionSeaCreationFitMadnessWeatherUselessDestroyingHollowUndisciplinedTyphoons
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“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”

WritingFirstsMomentsEarthLastsMotherGivenCareersNovelHappenedWindMonthsWestSatisfactionEastSignificantFortyHousewifeManuscriptsLife HappensGood Earth
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“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.”

KnowsMenFirstsWellsChildrenHomeTogetherFruitVery GoodBelieverFirmHappy LifeGiverReally Happy
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”

MotherSufferingRaceEffectsTruth IsPrejudiceProfoundReachingMinoritiesContestsMothers DaySentimentalityStrippingStripping AwayBest American
Book:Of Men and Women
Create image

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

PeopleIfsIdeasCountryPhilosophyHomeYoungNaturalMy OwnQualityOpinionPrejudiceIntelligentPhilosophicalChinaChineseCreedsSophisticationHomesickNaivete
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.”

MenHas BeensBookDonePleasureWifeWrittenVariousOfficialsLeisureProtectedHouseholdSecretaryBeing A WomanRecreationHouseworkHandicapsHomemakerHomemaking
Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
Create image

“Most mothers kiss and scold together.”

TogetherMotherMomKissingMy MomMotherhoodMumMothers DayBeing A MomYour MomSingle MomMotheringHappy Mothers DayMother LoveMother's LoveBest MotherSingle MotherMummyMother And SonYour MumGreat MotherInspirational MothersMother ProverbsInspirational MotherhoodLove For My MotherWives And MothersGood Happy Mothers DayJust A MomFunny Mothers DayFunny MotherhoodBest MomGreat MomFunny MotherScoldingLove Your MotherInspirational MomMom DaughterScoldedYoung MotherGreatest MomJoys Of MotherhoodLove MomGreatest Mothers DayMother Son RelationshipMotherhood And LoveMothers Day LoveMother Son InspirationalGodly Mothers
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image

“To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

KnowsWellsJoyEnjoyWorkCareersKnow HowLearningTeachingPerfectionExcellenceGreat WorkOne WordBest WorkHuman ResourcesMotivational WorkDoing What You LoveJoy Of LivingWork To Be DoneInspirational CareerMotivational CareerLove Your WorkInspired To WorkWork You LoveQuality WorkWork LoveWork PlaceJoy To The WorldMotivation And DriveLoving What You DoStriving For PerfectionStriving For ExcellenceLove Your JobPursuit Of ExcellenceEnjoy Your WorkJoy In Work
Author:Pearl S. Buck
Create image