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.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.