Alice Duer Miller Quotes

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

forgiveness

You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

listening

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

friendship criticism

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends—you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

friendship

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government. Man's place is in the armory.

men