“The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.”

The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Make the world better.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.

A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you’ll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don’t need a boyfriend.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.

I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.