Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Within you exists the same power that rests with the Universe, for you are not separate from the source you pray to.

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.