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

When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.

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

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Independence is happiness.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.