A Soul Occupied With Great

All Women Should Inform Themselves Of The Condition Of Their Sex And Of Their Own Position. It Must Necessarily Follow That The Noblest Of Them Will, Sooner Or Later, Put Forth A Moral Power Which Shall Prostrate Cant, And Burst Asunder The Bonds (silken To Some But Cold Iron To Others) Of Feudal Prejudice And Usages. In The Meantime Is It To Be Understood That The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Bear No Relation To Half Of The Human Race? If So, What Is The Ground Of This Limitation?

[on Being Deaf:] We Must Struggle For Whatever May Be Had, Without Encroaching On The Comfort Of Others.

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.

But Is It Not The Fact That Religion Emanates From The Nature, From The Moral State Of The Individual? Is It Not Therefore True That Unless The Nature Be Completely Exercised, The Moral State Harmonized, The Religion Cannot Be Healthy?

Authorship Has Never Been With Me A Matter Of Choice. I Have Not Done It For Amusement, Or For Money, Or For Fame, Or For Any Reason But Because I Could Not Help It.