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

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

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

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

How long will the heathens rage?

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.