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.

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

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

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.

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

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.