It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood. - Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than to outrun exposer. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, “Hurrah, we’re all right! This is the greatest nation on earth,” when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.

I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent.