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.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

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