As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.