How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.