When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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.

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Oh, I am in love with life!