I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. – George Bernard Shaw
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to wife Sophia, 5 December 1839
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. – Leland Stanford