Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.