So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'