there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.