I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.