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.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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.

Failure is Impossible

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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.

Independence is happiness.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

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.

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

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.

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 ideals.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

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.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

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.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

Failure is impossible.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.