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

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

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

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

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