Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women There is so much yet to be done.
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.
I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she shafes under a government that tolerates it.
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that out bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
So long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman
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