“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

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

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same.

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

There is no future without education.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.