That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word ‘obey’ in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman.
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
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.