War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.