The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.