You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

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!

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

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