It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.