Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.