A race cannot be purified from without.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

No one really wants you, they only want the idea of you.

Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.