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 [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?
Mary Edwards Walker