Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

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

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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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 unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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Failure is impossible.

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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

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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.

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