The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.