When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

You can balance the unbalance. Once you believe the unbelievable.Then you will always be the best version of yourself.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.