The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.