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

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

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.

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

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

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

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