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

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

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.

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.

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

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

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