For these years I can only be a mother- no trivial thing, either.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and t…

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follo…

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.