My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity..

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all..

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusio….

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal o….

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or sense….

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!.

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accusto….

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but wh….

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home..

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing mor….

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation..

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue..

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them..

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness….

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutalit….

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitati….

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ...….

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual..

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog ….

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God..

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment..