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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.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

Failure is Impossible

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

If I could only live another century!

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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

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

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

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

Independence is happiness.

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

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

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

Better lose me than lose a state.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

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

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

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

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.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

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

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

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

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

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

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

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

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

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

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.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making ...

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

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

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.