Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.