I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent. . . they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.
Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.