...the way to reform has always led through prison.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

Trust in God - she will provide.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.