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

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

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.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

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.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.