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.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

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

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.