One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.