Who said “If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half…”?

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”

“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”

“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”

“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?”

“For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.”

“Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”

“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”

“If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”