Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.

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

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.