Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.