No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church – to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
If I could only live another century!
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men’s ideas. As long as that continues, women’s ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
Independent bread gives independent morals: – while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; – So get money – get wealth.