Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

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.

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?