It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.