A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

- Frances Harper

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warm…

- Frances Harper

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing…

- Frances Harper

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

- Frances Harper

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

- Frances Harper

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

- Frances Harper

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

- Frances Harper

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving…

- Frances Harper

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

- Frances Harper