it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
Harriet MartineauThe 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.
Harriet MartineauI never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
Harriet MartineauThis 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.
Harriet Martineau