Make the world better.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Why don't you speak for yourself John?

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with. But I loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.