Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.