Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

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

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

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.