I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

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

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.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.