War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

I live life with a daring curiosity.

Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.

A dead heart is a dead life

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.