During The Present Interval Between The Feudal

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?

I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

What Office Is There Which Involves More Responsibility, Which Requires More Qualifications, And Which Ought, Therefore, To Be More Honorable, Than That Of Teaching?

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.

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.