I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

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.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.