The position of woman does not seem to me at all satisfactory, and that is a point, you know, on which I feel very strongly.

It seems to me that in England they play a very faded-out part, and those with whom I conversed had a kind of depressed and humiliated tone; a little dull, tame look, as if they were used to being snubbed and bullied, which made me want to give them a good shaking.

There are a great many people--and a great many things, too--over here that I should like to perform that operation upon.

I should like to shake the starch out of some of them, and the dust out of the others.

I know fifty girls in Bangor that come much more up to my notion of the stand a truly noble woman should take, than those young ladies in England.