Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.