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We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
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.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Failure is impossible.
