The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.

Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.

Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.