I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
The best protection any woman can have. . . is courage.
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports.
The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.