It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

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?"

No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

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.