Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

What its children become, that will the community become.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?