God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.