There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

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

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

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.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!