Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
