“How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!”

“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”

“Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.”