Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

Trust in God - she will provide.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?

When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father's. Both earthly and heavenly.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Now it is nothing but torture.