Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.