It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.