A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.