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.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

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.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.