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

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

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

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.