At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

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.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

A world without heroes is only a world with either mere men or men with wit and courage who never had the courage to take steps that could write great and amazing stories of life!

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

GIVE IF YOU CAN. TAKE IF YOU HAVE TO

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.