Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

We know that we are close to making history.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.