Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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.

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

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.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

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.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Independence is happiness.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose...

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters...

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers,...

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

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.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired...

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the...

I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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...

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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.

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

…the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

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

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Failure is impossible.

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.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

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.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.