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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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