We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.