It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Never give in, never back down.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.