Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

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

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.