Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.