Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

You'll... you'll... live your best life today.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

The grace of God is courtesy.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

Work to make a living; serve to make a life.