“The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.”

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about.

When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it

One of the reasons I’ve felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it’s the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you’ll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.