The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

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

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

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

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 was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

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