The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.

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

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.