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.

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

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

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.