We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
—Pearl Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
—Pearl Buck
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
—Pearl Buck
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
—Pearl Buck
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
—Pearl Buck