I Constantly Felt (as I Suppose Many

If Women Were Once Permitted To Read Sophocles And Work With Logarithms, Or To Nibble At Any Side Of The Apple Of Knowledge, There Would Be An End Forever To Their Sewing On Buttons And Embroidering Slippers.

Let Our Girls Feel That We Expect Something More Of Them Than That They Merely Look Pretty And Appear Well In Society.

The Old, Subjective, Stagnant, Indolent And Wretched Life For Woman Has Gone. She Has As Many Resources As Men, As Many Activities Beckon Her On. As Large Possibilities Swell And Inspire Her Heart.

... Woman's Cause Is The Cause Of The Weak; And When All The Weak Shall Have Received Their Due Consideration, Then Woman Will Have Her "rights," And The Indian Will Have His Rights, And The Negro Will Have His Rights, And All The Strong Will Have Learned At Last To Deal Justly, To Love Mercy, And To Walk Humbly; And Our Fair Land Will Have Been Taught The Secret Of Universal Courtesy Which Is After All Nothing But The Art, The Science, And The Religion Of Regarding One's Neighbor As One's Self, And To Do For Him As We Would, Were Conditions Swapped, That He Do For Us.

I Care Not For The Theoretical Symmetry And Impregnable Logic Of Your Moral Code, I Care Not For The Hoary Respectability And Traditional Mysticisms Of Your Theological Institutions, I Care Not For The Beauty And Solemnity Of Your Rituals And Religious Ceremonies, I Care Not Even For The Reasonableness And Unimpeachable Fairness Of Your Social Ethics,--if It Does Not Turn Out Better, Nobler, Truer, Men And Women,--if It Does Not Add To The World's Stock Of Valuable Souls,--if It Does Not Give Us A Sounder, Healthier, More Reliable Product From This Great Factory Of Men--i Will Have None Of It.