The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism it's egotism.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder the means by which we are translated?

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

As I understand it sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Women more often than not do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening which is just another sort of work.

I did go to Wellesley a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.