To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

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.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

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

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.