If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.
Mary Edwards WalkerA woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.
Mary Edwards WalkerYou must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.
Mary Edwards WalkerI fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.
Mary Edwards Walker