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

... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth