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.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

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

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

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.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.