The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

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.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

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