I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.