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

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.