57 Quotes by Stephanie Dray

I'll tell you a secret about being happy. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it become real.

But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.

The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

It pains me to be an embarrassment to you, but I don't know how to remedy my flaws. All I know is that whenever I feel strongly compelled to act, a doubt always arises. And whereas the voice of reason is low and persuasive, passion is loud and imperious.

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...

They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.

Whatever be the complexions of the enslaved, it does not, in my opinion, alter the complexion of the crime the enslaver commits. A crime much blacker than any African face.Its a matter of great anxiety and concern to find this trade is sometimes carried on under the flag of liberty, our dear and noble stripes, to which virtue and glory have been constant standard-bearers.

What a high-minded thing revolution had seemed when it started; but now I wondered if, in trying to bring about liberty, we’d instead opened the gates of endless war, bloodshed, and immorality.