Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

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

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.