I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wante...d my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become, during his earlier years of a miller's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of f...ifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then--but they were not roses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the libert...y of womankind. I have met and known most of the progressive women who came after her--Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone--a long galaxy of great women.... Those older women have gone on, and most of those who worked with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don different from those regal Dons! With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,... Who shout and bang and roar and brawl The Absolute across the hall,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;... Don middle-class, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I almost wished that I was still in prison. I felt I wasn't ready to be out making decisions.... Even now over three years a...fter my release, I can carry around fifty rand for two weeks and not spend it. I go into shops, but I find it hard to choose things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forty years on, growing older and older, Shorter in wind, as in memory long,... Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder What will it help you that once you were strong?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »