The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

There can be no compromise with war.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Killing more people won't help matters.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.