Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

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.

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 government: the ballot.

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

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

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.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

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 secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.

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 and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

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 exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

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 abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.