Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

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.

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.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

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.