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.

In America, public opinion is the leader

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

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

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