I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!