I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
Independence is happiness.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.