Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy...
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness – united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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.