It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

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

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

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

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.

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.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.