48 quotes found
“Independence is happiness.”
“The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exer...”
“It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican gover...”
“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to...”
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.”
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
“The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”
“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
“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.”
“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.”
“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ...”
“An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife...”
“No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical a...”
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not the birthdays the graduations the weddings not the great goals achieved. The real milestones a...”
“Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.”
“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.”
“Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as...”
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.”
