“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.”

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create history.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.

History has no meaning.

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.