the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her..

You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

Don't tell me you're my friend. Act like one.