There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)