A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

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

If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

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