BUCK, PEARL : If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, English writer, 1903-1950Disabilities: The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : There will be no real content among American women unless they are . . . given equal opportunity with men….. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : 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. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

BUCK, PEARL : One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)