It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292