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.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

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

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

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

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.