Olive Emilie Scheider

There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

There is nothing ridiculous in love.

I object to anything that divides the two sexes. My main point is this: human development has now reached a point at which sexual difference has become a thing of altogether minor importance. We make too much of it; we are men and women in the second place, human beings in the first.