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.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

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

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

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

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.