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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

It is time we gave man faith in woman
and, still more, woman faith in herself.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

We must be true to each other.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Make the world better.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

Leave women to find their sphere.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment
never goes ahead of it because he depends on it ...