“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“I urge you to: Trudge not through life leaving ugly gashes, Tiptoe not through life leaving half-formed impressions, But tread gently, lovingly and purposefully Leaving graceful heart-prints.”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”
“The understanding of atomic physics is child’s play, compared with the understanding of child’s play.”
“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”
“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Real women don’t have flushes, they have power surges.”
“Self-improvement begins with self-acceptance. All of life, everything else, has led up to this. This is your work now. It is the final step. Go for it.”
“While Australia was the first country to give women the right to stand as well as to vote for the national parliament, Finland was the second. And Finland immediately elected nineteen women to its parliament (in 1907) while Australia had essentially given women the right to stand but not to sit. It was not until 1943 that the first women took their seats in Australia’s national parliament.”
