The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

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.