Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.