Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

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 behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

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

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

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.