I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.