The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

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

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.