While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.