Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.


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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think ...
HARRIET HARMAN
I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
HARRIET WALTER
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the pati...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The su...
HARRIET TUBMAN
You'll be free or die!
HARRIET TUBMAN
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to th...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you ca...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watchin...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me...
HARRIET TUBMAN
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I can't die but once.
HARRIET TUBMAN
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
HARRIET TUBMAN
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the L...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts u...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individua...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welco...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the sta...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than pray...
HARRIET ROCHLIN
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
HARRIET ROSENSTEIN
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
HARRIET BRAIKER
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and whi...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the...
HARRIET TUBMAN
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER
Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where t...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMAN
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was...
HARRIET TUBMAN
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality...
HARRIET HARMAN
Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to...
HARRIET EVANS
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't ...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fiel...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it...
HARRIET TUBMAN
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ...
HARRIET WALTER
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.
HARRIET BRAIKER
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
HARRIET BRAIKER
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at al...
HARRIET LERNER
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
HARRIET WOODS
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure prepara...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are
HARRIET MARTINEAU
I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need ...
HARRIET WALTER
The administrative suspension was lifted as soon as my dues were received.
HARRIET MIERS
We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council.
HARRIET MIERS
I believe employers should be able to pick the best qualified for any position to be filled consider...
HARRIET MIERS
I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS
Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that i...
HARRIET MIERS
I truly believe if the governor told her she should be an Astronaut, she would do her best to become...
HARRIET MIERS
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to...
HARRIET LERNER