"We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?"

“As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.”

“The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.”

“The Victorian Web: Lydia Sigourney”

“Niagara Falls Poetry Project - Sigourney poems”

“Finch, Annie. "An Unsung Singer. "The Sentimental Poetess in the World: Metaphor and Subjectivity in Lydia Sigourney's Nature Poetry." Legacy, Fall 1987.”

“The Heath Anthology of American Literature's article about Lydia Sigourney”