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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
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From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
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[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
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When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"