To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.