The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

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

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

Leave women to find their sphere.