Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.
An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.
whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.
We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.