The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.