Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Do not envy the success of any person. But set your goal on a successful guy. Then this will make you succeed.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.