For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pur...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indul...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which ...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not tr...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the com...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and c...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold c...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, tha...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Sl...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive a...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he con...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as li...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Die Geheimnisse der Sklaverei werden genauso totgeschwiegen wie die der Inquisition.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that i...
HARRIET WALTER Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 2...
HARRIET WALTER I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say...
HARRIET WALTER As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be pe...
HARRIET WALTER I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them u...
HARRIET WALTER I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible....
HARRIET WALTER My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I ...
HARRIET WALTER We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot h...
HARRIET MARTINEAU A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
HARRIET MARTINEAU If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts...
HARRIET MARTINEAU The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider m...
HARRIET MARTINEAU It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
HARRIET MARTINEAU A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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 Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair f...
HARRIET HARMAN I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just ...
HARRIET HARMAN I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I...
HARRIET HARMAN Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party aga...
HARRIET HARMAN It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, o...
HARRIET HARMAN I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mot...
HARRIET HARMAN Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm ...
HARRIET HARMAN 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 Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMAN You'll be free or die!
HARRIET TUBMAN . . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'
HARRIET MONROE The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better.
HARRIET MONROE There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties
HARRIET MARTINEAU Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hear...
HARRIET MARTINEAU There is no forethought or editing when I paint. These covered canvases are all over my studio. When...
HARRIET WISEMAN Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
HARRIET NELSON I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
HARRIET MARTINEAU If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to c...
HARRIET ZIEFERT Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and su...
HARRIET BROWN You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.
HARRIET EVANS I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to con...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory ov...
HARRIET TUBMAN Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time...
HARRIET TUBMAN Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
HARRIET MONROE I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMAN It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,
HARRIET ZIEFERT I teach in order to pass on to others what I have learned and because of a serious concern that youn...
HARRIET WOODS Students learn about the revolution that has occurred in the past few decades transforming society a...
HARRIET WOODS I'm not weird,' Elle said defensively.
'I mean in a good way. All the best people are.' He swal...
HARRIET EVANS I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face,...
HARRIET BROWN Don’t use “below-the-belt” tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeli...
HARRIET LERNER Women have always been spies.
HARRIET RUBIN Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s...
HARRIET EVANS The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot."
...
HARRIET EVANS I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT Since I am both the author and the publisher of this book, I must, of course, take full responsibili...
HARRIET ZIEFERT Teachers and parents should try to get these feelings out in the open, down on paper and let them be...
HARRIET ZIEFERT My goal is to make sure (children's) books address a whole range of emotions, ... There are too many...
HARRIET ZIEFERT These provide a different way of thinking. They have to be done quickly and in the moment. I like do...
HARRIET WISEMAN I thought everything was picture perfect but emotionally I wasn't right. I needed to open up and dis...
HARRIET WISEMAN This is the first time that a major art museum has shown his work.
HARRIET WARKEL My favorite part of the exhibit, ... is the 'Outside Over There' original drawings, because I can se...
HARRIET WARKEL And then we have all the books,
HARRIET WARKEL Robert loves to play tennis and plans to play often at the tennis courts, and we both love to spend ...
HARRIET STEIN We chose a Del Webb home because of the builders' reputation. They went above and beyond our expecta...
HARRIET STEIN If you get into an accident, get your cameras out, call your family, get their support because like ...
HARRIET SEABURY We will wait after Sept. 27 to see what happens.
HARRIET SANDMEIER This could be a landmark decision regarding the integrity of our constitution.
HARRIET SANDMEIER We are first and foremost saddened, because we all hurt when one church wants to leave the body, but...
HARRIET SANDMEIER When your absence has the authority of your presence, that is power.
HARRIET RUBIN Their heart has to be in it. They really have to want to do the job well. There's someone out there,...
HARRIET MILLER Basically, we've been borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and now it's time to pay Paul back. We may n...
HARRIET MILLER We've needed to replace these computers for a long time now. You're just never ready for something l...
HARRIET MILLER We certainly coordinate the process.
HARRIET MIERS The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination. And the mo...
HARRIET MIERS I do not have all the facts on the significance of these ordinances; however, I am willing to discus...
HARRIET MIERS Yes, assuming need and resources. I do consider the AIDS illness as a serious, total community probl...
HARRIET MIERS And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good com...
HARRIET LERNER We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen...
HARRIET LERNER You absolutely need to have action on ending the outrageous U.S. and EU subsidies, ending the escala...
HARRIET LAMB It's very clear that we have to do something about the way world trade rules are implemented...if we...
HARRIET LAMB Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.
HARRIET LAMB I think it is a very interesting debate but our first and major concern is whether we can increase o...
HARRIET LAMB It's like being in the country but you're so close to the city.
HARRIET KOEDEL The state Department of Education uses the district clusters to report disparities in performance an...
HARRIET FELDLAUFER I don't think this is over.
HARRIET FELDLAUFER Everyone has a different notion of what E-R-G means.
HARRIET FELDLAUFER You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
HARRIET DOERR Baking is fundamental to the Jewish culture. Every holiday has its own food.
HARRIET DAVIDSON The apricot mixture I make at home with dried apricots, grated orange peel and secret spices. The so...
HARRIET DAVIDSON Today I am giving a crash course on how to make strudels.
HARRIET DAVIDSON I don't have them play themselves. I'll have them play their family members.
HARRIET COMFORT We replicate experiences that a lot of people have when they have mental illnesses.
HARRIET COMFORT The first thing I do is check my alarm clock to make sure the time is right, then I wash my hands, t...
HARRIET COMFORT The interest among clients is in long and short emerging markets.
HARRIET BALDWIN Kodak has done a better job of producing more digital cameras for people to choose from but do you w...
HARRIET BALDWIN Kodak is doing better than they were three years ago but film is like the buggy whip. Kodak was slow...
HARRIET BALDWIN All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.
HARRIET JONES It's weird I don't know anything about you,"
"What are you talking about? We just spent the who...
HARRIET EVANS No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.
HARRIET EVANS She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even ...
HARRIET EVANS There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women'...
MARC JACOBS I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-...
GILLIAN JACOBS I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap ...
MARC JACOBS