“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.”

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.

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.

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.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there’s nothing exactly like it.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.