it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

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.

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40, 000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.