How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them

Always have Hope, for without Hope there is no surprise.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.