Iowans Know Themselves And What They Are

Just About Everything Significant In My Life Happened After I Passed Forty. I Was A Housewife And Mother, But Yearned To Be A Writer. I Worked At My Writing Whenever I Could Snatch A Moment, And I Assembled Several Manuscripts. I Was Just About Forty When My First Novel, East Wind, West Wind, Was Published. Then A Few Months Later Came The Good Earth. My Career Was Launched At Last, And It Has Given Me The Richest Possible Satisfaction

God Is Not In The Vastness Of Greatness. He Is Hid In The Vastness Of Smallness . He Is Not In The General. He Is In The Particular.

Anger Can Give Energy To The Mind But Only If It Is Harnessed And Held In Control.

Fatalism Is A False Premise. What Will Be Is Not Necessarily What Must Be.

There's Two Kinds Of Folk In The World, Just Like There's Two Kinds Of Life In A Seed. Something Sends One Kind Up To Hunt Its Food In The Light And Air, And Sends The Other Kind Down Into The Earth To Make The Roots.