“Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.”

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

We must be true to each other.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Leave women to find their sphere.

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.

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.

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.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.