“When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.”

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.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

I have a lot of admiration for people who’ve been in relationships a long time, married for years.

The world is conditioned to admire flowers. Keep watering your roots.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.