Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.