One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Anna Julia CooperIf women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.
Anna Julia CooperLet our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.
Anna Julia Cooper