The idea of equal rights was in the air.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Indecision has a way of not moving forward. And who says time doesn't stand still?

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

Shall I add a man to my collection?

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.

I think that things happen for a reason.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

... and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.