The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

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?

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.