If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.