One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

I married beneath me. All women do.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.