If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

The critic of the opposite sex will be genuinely puzzled and surprised by an attempt to alter the current scale of values, and will see in it not merely a difference of view, but a view that is weak, or trivial, or sentimental, because it differs from their own.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears on the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.