A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Everybody's family has different values.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'