Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Pearl S. Buck Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jun 26, 1892
  • Died: Mar 6, 1973

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."

After her return to the United States in 1935, she continued her prolific writing career, and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it. truth

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. death & hope

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. work

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. work

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. age

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. relationship

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. marriage

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. work

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. education & home

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. alone

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. death & hope

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. happiness

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. freedom, hope & power

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. communication

One faces the future with one's past. future

Love alone could waken love. alone

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. beauty

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. change & marriage