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.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

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

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

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.

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.

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