I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction.