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

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.

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.

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

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

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?