Women lose themselves in it as men lose themselves in shopkeeping, farming, editing.

Knowing nothing but your work is one of the commonest human mistakes.

Pitifully enough it is often a deliberate mistake--the only way or the easiest way one finds to quiet an unsatisfied heart.

The undue place given good housekeeping in many a woman's scheme of life is the more tragic because it is a distortion of one of the finest things in the human experience--the satisfaction of doing a thing well.

It is a satisfaction which the worker must have if he is to get joy from his labor.