“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”

“Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.”

“Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.”

“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.”

“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.”

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“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 shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”

“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.”

“It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.”