[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the el...ection and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you kee...p dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in... favor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superint...endent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is too late--the world is too dark for any thought ahead. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to mak...e it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequ...ately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »