Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

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

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

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

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

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

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.