My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

I ain't afraid to love a man.

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.