There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

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.

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

... 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.'

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

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.