If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
What we play is life.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.