Nothing is menial where there is love. Pearl S. Buck

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

Pearl Buck

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
― Pearl S Buck

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
― Pearl Buck

 “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
― Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love

“To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women 

 “There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

 “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
― Pearl S. Buck 

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”
― Pearl S. Buck 

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck 

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
― Pearl S. Buck

 “I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth 

“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