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

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.