... 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.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

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.

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

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.