The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

I design for the working girl.

Old. A viable die-able age.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.