Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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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.

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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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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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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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

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