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

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

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

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

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?

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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