All that my yearning spirit craves

If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself.

One hundred years ago and Africa was the privileged hunting-ground of Europe and America, and the flag of different nations hung a sign of death on the coasts of Congo and Guinea, and for years unbroken silence had hung around the horrors …

justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own …

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move without woman's sharing in the movement.

I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.

Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces, and overthrown, but to-day we stand on the threshold of woman's era, and woman's work is grandly constructive. In her hand are possibilities whose use or abuse must tell …