For My Own Part, I Had Rather

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 Have No Sympathy For Those Who, Under Any Pressure Of Circumstances, Sacrifice Their Heart's-love For Legal Prostitution.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.

Even If Their Outward Fortunes Could Be Absolutely Equalized, There Would Be, From Individual Constitution Alone, An Aristocracy And A Democracy In Every Land. The Fearful By Nature Would Compose An Aristocracy, The Hopeful By Nature A Democracy, Were All Other Causes Of Divergence Done Away.

While Feeling Far Less Injured By Toil Than My Friends Took For Granted I Must Be, I Yet Was Always Aware Of The Strong Probability That My Life Would End As The Lives Of Hard Literary Workers Usually End, - In Paralysis, With Months Or Years Of Imbecility.