It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.