Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.