“For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.”

How shall we ever make the world intelligent?

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.

Better lose me than lose a state.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

If I could only live another century!

Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

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?

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.