I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right