I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. ….

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puck….

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and ….

I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that ….

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 ….

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 ot….

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..

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..

Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes ….

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin..

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

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 ….

As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; an….

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the gr….

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 ….

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..

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his..

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