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.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

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.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

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