“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

Independence is happiness.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.

Equal Pay for Equal Work.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

I don’t care what you play, where you’re from, who you produce. It depends on what you’re doing when you’re with me. That’s what counts. I don’t pre-judge anything or anybody.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today