I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
