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

... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

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

Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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.