“My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.”

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”

“[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike.”

“The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”

“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”