“I see the world...and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries think it is.”

“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”

“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”

“A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.”

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. ”

“I think," Ella said, "that what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman, and she should make up her own mind and not change it when the wind starts to blow. I think a woman should be who she is, not what others expect her to be. And if she wants to go to a dance looking for a man, she should go and not feel like she has to explain herself. And if she want to have her own farm, she should do that and not feel like she has to explain that, either. And…I think you should be quiet now.”