“The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity ...” — Paul Hoffman Quote

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.