I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

There are no have-to's, just choices

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.