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

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!

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

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

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

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