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

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.

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

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

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.