For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

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

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

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

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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