 I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. |
| The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. |
| The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. |
| The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. |
| The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. |
| Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. |
| We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. |
| The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. |
| The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. |
| Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. |
| Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. |
| To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. |
| 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. |
| I shall not grow conservative with age. |
| The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. |
| Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. |
| Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. |
| To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. |
| Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. |
| We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. |
