I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?