“… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’”

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Women’s property has been taxed, equally with that of men’s, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.

Obama is a statist. He’s an authoritarian. He doesn’t want to govern; he wants to rule.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.