It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
Lillie Devereux BlakeWe are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.
Lillie Devereux BlakeJust so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.
Lillie Devereux BlakeI have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
Lillie Devereux Blake