As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

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

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

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.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

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