“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.

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

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.

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.

Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.

Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.

The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

No more excuses about being young.