Caroline Norton

“I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights; I have only wrongs.”

“A married woman has no legal existence.”

“My husband has a legal right to my earnings; I have no legal right to his.”

“I have learned the law respecting married women piece-meal, by suffering every one of its defects of protection.”

“The law which was framed for my protection, has become my bitterest enemy.”

“An English wife cannot make a will. She cannot sue, or be sued.”

“He has a right to the custody of his children. I have no right.”

“The natural position of woman is inferiority to man. Amen! That is a thing of God's appointing, not of man's devising.”

“I never pretended to the wild and ridiculous doctrine of equality.”

“We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade.”

“A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers.”

“I do not love thee! - no! I do not love thee! And yet when thou art absent I am sad.”

“My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by.”

“To see a man you have once loved, and who has loved you, become a perfect stranger, is a thing so sad.”