Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossesesing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Failure is impossible.

The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

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

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?