Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

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.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

...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.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Failure is impossible.

Failure is impossible.

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

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.

Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Independence is happiness.

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

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?