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

. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

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

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.