nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.