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

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

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

Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.