Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of bru...
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Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
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... the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of the nation. Then, and not unt...
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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.
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The true republic: men, their right and nothing more. Woman, their rights and nothing less.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of am...
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One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
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It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely withi...
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The true republic
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools the parties su...
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudg...
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Failure is impossible.
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Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
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[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives...
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