Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.
I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the ‘new woman’ is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims...
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.
All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one’s own abundance.
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.