Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.