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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person — things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

Margaret Halsey

In the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

Margaret Halsey

If, as I suspected at the time, I was a one-book writer, I wanted to be the kind of one-book writer who writes only one book.

Margaret Halsey

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

Margaret Halsey

It is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

Margaret Halsey