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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No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

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

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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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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

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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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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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