Sex and Common-Sense

every human soul was made for God, and that no part or section of society, no race, no class, and no sex, was made for the convenience of another.

Jesus said, "the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head." (St. Luke ix. 58.)

When you ask a woman to-day to make the great sacrifice "in the interests of morality," you must offer her a morality that is moral—a morality whose justice and humanity move her to a response; not a morality which offends every instinct of justice and reality the moment the person to whom it is offered understands what it means.

A child is not provided for when you have given it a home and food and clothing, since it is a spirit as well as a body—a soul and a spirit, a being craving for love, and needing to live in an atmosphere of love.

when you try to divorce your physical experience from your intellectual and emotional being you are again violating the law of your own nature

I believe indeed that if men and women understood each other a little better they would hurt each other a good deal less.

America is still a country of experiments—a country adventurous enough to make experiments, and to risk making mistakes.