Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
It isn’t often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
Twitter’s a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes. It’s also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet.
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Just close your eyes – and think of England.
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.