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

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.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

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.

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

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

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.