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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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