Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

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

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.

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!

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