... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

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.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.