When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: “Am I dying or is this my birthday?”
The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about ‘shrieking sisterhoods’ and ‘disappointed spinsters’ and rubbish of that sort.
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
From the American newspapers you’d think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world – except a woman-governed world.
Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions.
Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing...
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
It isn’t the common man at all who is important: it’s the uncommon man.
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
We women talk too much, but even then we don’t tell half what we know.
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don’t want to do them.
People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.