Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matri….

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life..

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a….

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it..

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the firs….

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile..

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history h….

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence..

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter….

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation..

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, no….

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?.

The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appea….

For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and whe….

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for mo….

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living..

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense..

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood..

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath the….

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity..

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind..