Stella Benson
Stella Benson
Stella Bensonwas an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
sometimes posing pretense
Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
alive bond cursed families family keeps rightly
Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive
call english-writer love man
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
writing san-francisco productions
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.
change flower godly
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
country art cities
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.
misunderstood excellent delicious
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
feet idols slippery-slope
You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
thinking hysteria movement
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
age three twenties
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
curiosity needs dies
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
love men stranger
Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
men doors people
Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
mother husband son
Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.