No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.