I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Wooing a woman is like fishing

[Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.