... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximated ...to equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anger that my friends... planted in my heart when they somehow found a hole in it ran off like an illicit lover as soon as I saw my man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madame d'Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by ...him as a woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as s...laves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They aroused me to a determination to understand more fully the position of women, and the character of those men who talk so much... of the need of our being "protected"Mremoving from us, meanwhile, what are often the very weapons of our defence [sic], occupations, and proper and encouraging remuneration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of t...he races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »