All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

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

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.