I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

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

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality