... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.