I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

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

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.