“I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.”

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better.

I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

Whatever is dirty, it is women’s job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way – stay out.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet.

We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the ‘dirt’ than in spite of it.

Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.

I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.