I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human..

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very ba….

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for he….

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater..

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called..

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty..

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex….

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading..

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they su….

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national quest….

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of thei….

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter..

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial..

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a dec….

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ru….

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mol….

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask que….

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and l….

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the….

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent..

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deade….