Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.