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.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

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

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?

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.