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

Make the world better.

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.

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.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. 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.