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.

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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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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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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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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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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

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