During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.
Harriet MartineauI am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet MartineauThe clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
Harriet MartineauIn the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.
Harriet Martineau