A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.