Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

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