A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman’s favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
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?