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

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

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

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.