“The woman must feel secure in being a woman in the first place, since the woman is the blueprint and the foundation of the house.”

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

“[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“Seduction is a woman's innate security.”

“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”

“(Woman in office) Help, I am a rich woman being kept prisoner in a working woman's body.”

“As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.”

“There is nothing wrong with being beautiful. It is a basic right for a woman to look like that. It's just that they must know how to place their dignity and self-respect.”