The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
