"The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible ..." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.