"Do you think I am an automaton?"
Strength
"I will keep as still as a mouse"
Patience
"My pulse stopped; my heart stood still"
Fear
"Laws and principles are not for the same thing"
Justice
"My spirit is willing to do what is right"
Courage
"Better to be without logic than without feeling"
Philosophy
"I felt as if I had been living a fairy tale"
Dreams
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel"
"The soul fortunately has an interpreter in the eye"
Art
"I am not deceitful; if I were, I should say I love you"
"Fanatics are all men of talent; but the talent is always perverted"
Philosophy
"I honor your reserve and your heroism"
"I would as soon think of defying the law of gravitation"
Wisdom
"Give me my own way entirely, and I shall be a good woman forever"
Freedom
"There is a voice within which tells what is right"
"Conventionality does not bind me"
"I would defend your name with my life"
"Reason I have, and shall use it"
Wisdom
"My spirit was moved to tears"
"I neither have nor wish to have wealth"
"I am resolute in maintaining my own principles"
Perseverance
"Do not underestimate the power of a woman's mind"
Strength
"I feel as if I could die with you"
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Freedom
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as any.—I have as much heart as any."
Strength
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Happiness
"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Truth
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
Peace
"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing than not slave and owe everything."
"I felt as if I had been living a mediocre existence, and suddenly I was alive."