We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.