You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

Whenever you find someone full of hate, purify him with forgiveness, bliss and love.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

What could be more physical than what you eat, where you live, and who you live with? These are all very physical issues.