Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

إننا نقف ههنا بوصفنا أحراراً، تحت سماء الله، كما تقفون أنتم. وبعونٍ من الرب العظيم الذي خلقنا، سنقاتل من أجل حريتنا إلى أن ننتصر أو نموت.»