The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. 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.

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

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

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

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

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.

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.