It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.