Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.