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

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

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

Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.