Fanny Kemble

“I am a star, a celebrity, a theatrical phenomenon...I am the popular idol of the hour...I have my pockets full of gold, and my heart full of bitterness.”

“It is notorious that the desire of wealth is a passion as masterful as ambition or love.”

“Conservatism is the pause on the last landing-place before the trial of a new flight of stairs.”

“It is true I have a great many sins to answer for, but I trust my own sex will not be my accusers.”

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

“What I have done is learn to love the dull routine of my life.”

“I put by the half-dead flowers that I had gathered yesterday on the rocks.”

“The slavery of black men is a great evil, but the slavery of white women is greater.”

“The odious vice of corporations is that they have no souls.”

“My chiefest talent, I think, is that of a letter writer.”

“Assuredly, I am a coward, and the battle of life is not for such as I.”