“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.

But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’

A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.