The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

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.

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

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

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.