... 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?

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

You never know anyone until you marry them.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.