Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

If somebody accepts you as you are, it doesn't mean that you're talented, it means they are generous enough to give you a chance to prove your worth. Stay humble!

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.