I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

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.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.