Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

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

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

The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.

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.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.