Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

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.

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

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

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