A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.