"What good does innocence do them?" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Crux: A Novel"

"There is something that governments care far more for than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy." —Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"

"Pleasures of the senses pall upon repetition, but pleasures of the soul continue and increase." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"

"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"

"Panic calls out cowardice, and cowardice cruelty." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "Curious, if True: Strange Tales"

"Suffering born for a cause begets sympathy with that cause and coercion arouses sympathy with the coerced." —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"

"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"

"There is nothing that cannot be borne, except not to know." —Margaret Oliphant, "Oliver's Bride; A true Story"

"To be human is more great than even womanhood!" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "In this our world"

"It was the truth that made the cruelty of it." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Moorland Cottage"

"Ignorance is the mother of devotion." —Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"

"We may either smother the divine fire of youth or we may feed it." —Jane Addams, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets"

"Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of the Dedicator's heirs and successors." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"

"Labor is the house that Love lives in." —Jane Addams, "Heroines of Service: Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams"

"Society, taken in the lump, is all dwarfs." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "A House to Let"

"freely reproduced, used, modified, or exploited by anyone for any purpose, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Anne of Avonlea"

"L'ange déchu devient le démon du mal. Et même cet ennemi de Dieu et de l'homme avait des amis et des compagnons dans son malheur; et moi je suis seul." —Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 3 (of 3)"

"In politics only force counts, but how is a discredited minority to exercise force?" —Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"

"The poison has a heart of healing." —Charlotte Despard, "The Rajah's Heir: A Novel in 3 volumes"

"If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally." —George Eliot, "George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3)"

"Slaves often hug their chains as ornaments, and the ignorant mistake custom for right." —Harriet Martineau, "Illustrations of political economy, Volume 6 (of 9)"

"I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"

"There is no evil that we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded." —Harriet Martineau, "Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2)"

"The Ego hypothesis might as well be laid aside at once and forever. We are not separate creatures at all, our life is ours, and only so to be rightly lived." —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Human Work"

"Eden is always behind us—Paradise always before." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "The Golden Road"

"You may do practically _anything_ with public domain eBooks." —Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

"The demons who most tormented poor Hund were not abroad on the earth or in the air, but within his breast—his remorse, his envy, his covetousness, his fear." —Harriet Martineau, "Feats on the Fiord"

"It is easier to submit—yes; it is disagreeable to know." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"

"Souls should not be rudely handled any more than bodies." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908"

"An empty house, if feared, can still protect." —Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"

"to refuse the gifts of life does not ensure their transmission to those for whom they have been surrendered" —Edith Wharton, "Bunner Sisters"

"The present is a perpetually prolonged past." —Edith Wharton, "In Morocco"

"Nobody likes to be talked to, but nobody can resist the eloquence of unconscious preaching." —Louisa May Alcott, "An Old-Fashioned Girl"

"Even crime has power to reproduce itself and create conditions favorable to its own existence." —Ida B. Wells, "The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States"

"The Popes have found no more certain solution for the problems of earth than did the philosophers." —Margaret Oliphant, "The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books"

"The new adultery was unfaithfulness to self." —Edith Wharton, "The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2"

"what Popple called society was really just like the houses it lived in: a muddle of misapplied ornament over a thin steel shell of utility." —Edith Wharton, "The Custom of the Country"

"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"

"Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of the Dedicator's heirs and successors." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Rainbow Valley"

"Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." —Elizabeth Stanton, "Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"

"Men are what women choose to make them." —Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"

"His own limitations faced him. He was not the relentless judge he had supposed himself." —Alice Miller, "The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story"

"Once in the public domain, a work may be used by anyone, for any purpose, by methods not yet invented or conceived." —Lucy Maud Montgomery, "The Story Girl"

"The fury of the hour must abate before we can deal justly with any man or any cause." —Ida B. Wells, "Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics"

"I cannot understand: I love." —Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Moorland Cottage"

"A good name was more precious than gold; for once lost money could not buy it back; and faith in one another made life smooth and happy as nothing else could do." —Louisa May Alcott, "Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys"

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." —George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"

"A world lost now except to legend." —Charlotte Bronte, "Their Mariposa Legend: A Romance of Santa Catalina"

"It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy." —Louisa May Alcott, "Eight Cousins"

"The finished product is not a private one." —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Herland"