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.

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.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

If I could only live another century!