Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.