 For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. |
| If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. |
| I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. |
| If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? |
| Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. |
| By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? |
| Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. |
| 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. |
| My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. |
| Women have no government. |
| I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
| To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. |
| It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love. |
| I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. |
| Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. |
| I endeavor to make the most of everything. |
| Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. |
| When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. |
| Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. |
| I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. |
