Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.