I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

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.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!