Men And Women Should Own The World

My First Vivid Memory Is...when First I Looked Into Her Face And She Looked Into Mine. That I Do Remember, And That Exchanging Looks I Have Carried With Me All Of My Life. We Recognized Each Other. I Was Her Child And She Was My Mother.

If There Is No Other Life, Then This One Has Been Enough To Make It Worth Being Born Myself...a Human Being.

For Our Democracy Has Been Marred By Imperialism, And It Has Been Enlightened Only By Individual And Sporadic Efforts At Freedom.

Food For All Is A Necessity. Food Should Not Be A Merchandise, To Be Bought And Sold As Jewels Are Bought And Sold By Those Who Have The Money To Buy. Food Is A Human Necessity, Like Water And Air, It Should Be Available.

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