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 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.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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.
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.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.