But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.