... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

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

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.