I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

My library is an archive of longings.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.