Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

I work as my father drank.