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

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

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.

The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

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