This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.