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.

Killing more people won't help matters.

There can be no compromise with war.

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

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

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

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