Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

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

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

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!