Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

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

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.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

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