"How fiercely, devoutly wild is Nature in the midst of her beauty-loving tenderness!--painting lilies, watering them, caressing them with gentle hand, going from flower to flower like a gardener while building rock mountains and cloud mountains full of lightning and rain."

John Muir, The Yosemite, Chapter 5. 1911

"The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; . . . a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; . . . . No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported . . . , they must make the voyage of life alone . . . ."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude and Self," 1892