I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

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 have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.