You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.