I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

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.

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

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.