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

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

I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.