I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

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

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

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

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

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

There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.