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

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

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

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

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

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?

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