Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.