In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Beneath the surface of civilian interests and capitalistic enterprise smoldered embers of the world’s war spirit — humanity’s traditional flare now to be enflamed by new instruments for fighting . . .

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 them quite automatically, if one has...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings — upon the spirit that...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . . [but] The Twentieth Century Woman . . . questions the completeness...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

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

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