More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopef...ul that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hat...e tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. I...n most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is noth...ing sweeter in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »