That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
From Lydia M. Child
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
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