A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

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.

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.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

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