I can stand out the war with any man.
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
Remember my name – you’ll be screaming it later.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.