I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

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

Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.