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.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

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?

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.