“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”
“...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...”
“I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.”
“I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”