Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.