Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.