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  • I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she shafes under a government that tolerates it.

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

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

  • Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that out bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • What you should say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it

  • To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom...

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

  • There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread if dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

  • I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

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