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.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor