“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.”

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.

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.

A friend saved is a friend earned. A friend spent is a friend enjoyed.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Success is something that has to be earned every day.

You have to take the calculated risk, to earn something.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.

There’s a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.