"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."

“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.”

“Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.”

“In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.”

“Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

“The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.”

“No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.”