Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

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.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

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

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

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?