If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.