Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.