Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
Harriet MartineauWe are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.
Harriet MartineauAll people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.
Harriet Martineau