The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.