There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

[T]here never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.