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.

We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.