"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."

"The only way to get a man to do something is to make him think it was his idea in the first place."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

"I think the best way to prove that the world can be run without men is to run it without men."