"I know, Mother, you feel badly and that you would prefer to have me take some other course, if I could in conscience.…"

"If, while I hear the shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth for the dumb, am I …"

"This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of …"

"Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecu…"

"We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but w…"

"Too much has already been said and written about "women's sphere". Leave women, then, to find their sphere."

"The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my…"

"I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not me…"

"All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property i…"

"Nor let it be said that we have forgot/The women who stood with Lucretia Mott;/Nor her who to the world was known/By …"