Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected; from the cromlech of the Dru… - Sydney, Lady Morgan, authoress of 'The wild Irish girl'

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination.

The influence of woman was, is, and ever will be exercised, directly or indirectly, in good or in evil! It is a part of the scheme of nature. Give her then the lights she is capable of receiving; educate her (whatever her station) for taking her part in society. Her ignorance has often made her interference fatal: her knowledge, never.

Race and temperament go for so much in influencing opinion!