19 quotes
American women's rights activist (1820-1906)
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
on Truth
"There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth."
"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it."
on Relationships
"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."
on Gender
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
"The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?"
"Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself."
on Wisdom
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
"Independence is happiness."
on Happiness
"Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform."
"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."
on Life
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
on Ethics
"Failure is impossible."
on Inspirational
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less."
"I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
on Faith
"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."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
