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.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

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.

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