I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

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?

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

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.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.