Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

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.

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

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

I married beneath me. All women do.

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

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.