The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
