We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?