I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it..

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is b….

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; t….

And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his li….

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation..

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress ….

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself..

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life..

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully..

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical fo….

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl..

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receiv….

[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who s….

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct..

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest bl….

But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the e….

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do..

Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These c….

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox..

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief prod….

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were wome….