If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

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.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Excellence is the target of champions and winners.

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

If you feel like you've ‘made it,’ and you're completely satisfied, you have bigger problems.

Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

But how can one be warm alone?

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.