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

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

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

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

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

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.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.