48 quotes found
“Failure is impossible.”
“Independence is happiness.”
“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”
“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
“The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or no...”
“When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I sh...”
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
“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.”
“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”
“...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”
“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in th...”
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice e...”
“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.”
“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?”
“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
“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. ”
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.”
“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”
“Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.”
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
