Pearl S. Buck

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Pearl S. Buck

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Pearl S. Buck

A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Pearl S. Buck

A person’s heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Pearl S. Buck

A woman’s mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

Pearl S. Buck

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.

Pearl S. Buck

As for inhibitions, I’ve spent a lifetime developing them, and I don’t intend to lose them.

Pearl S. Buck

But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck