It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

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.

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.

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

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.

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.