I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

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

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.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

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?

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.