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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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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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.

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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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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.

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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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