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

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

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

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

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

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