I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Women have no government.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.