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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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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.
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
