You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

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

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

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.