What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

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.

No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

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.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.