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.

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

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

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