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

Make the world better.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

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

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

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.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.