If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Women have no government.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.