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

I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

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

If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth