Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!