... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the freedom and equality of the races and the sexes.

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

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

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.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.