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

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

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

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

There can be no compromise with war.

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.

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.