I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.