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

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

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.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

It’s better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

I’ve been that children, learning to walk. Somedays I’ve fallen, and some days I’ve crawled. But the steps, they grew. And so did my strength. And then I let go of your hand.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.