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

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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.