When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.