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.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

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