Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.