“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician, poet or writer.”

Her metaphor of motherhood as an art emphasises the creative responsibility of raising children. · Address, Enlightened Motherhood, 1892

• Creation
• Education
• Motherhood

“Society cannot afford to neglect the enlightenment of any class of its members.”

An argument for education and social progress that leaves no group behind. · Speech, We Are All Bound Up Together, 1866

• Education
• Equality
• Society

“You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs. I, as a colored woman, have had in this country an education which has made me feel as if I were in the situation of Ishmael.”

She draws attention to the lived experience of racial injustice within the wider struggle for women's rights. · Speech, We Are All Bound Up Together, 1866

• Justice
• Race
• Women