There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.