“God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.”

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

All men & women are created equal.

An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.

In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.