Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

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Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

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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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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

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

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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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.

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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.

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