Seneca Falls Quotes

#1. Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation.
- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#2. I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#3. I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

Janis Joplin

#4. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Amelie Mauresmo

#5. It makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it does not matter how great is the flame, but what it falls upon.

Seneca.

#6. It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me

Sarah J. Maas

#7. Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Nick Cave

#8. How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel?

David Platt

#9. Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

Thomas Pynchon

#10. Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#13. You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

Johnny Mercer

#14. If a great man falls and remains great as he lies, people no more despise him than they stamp on a fallen temple, which the devout still worship as much as when it was standing.

Seneca.

#15. Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Seneca The Younger