“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.”
“Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.”
“Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.”
“I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.”
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”
“I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.”
“If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?”
“Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.”
“It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.”
“The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.”