Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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

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

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.