“I always say just what I think, as you see, and I trust it will not seem unlovely to you in me as a woman. I do not wish to appear so, but I had rather than give up what I think is truly and undeniably one of woman’s rights in common with men.”

Defence of frank speech as a right belonging equally to women · Letter to Charles F. Briggs, c. 1844–45

• Gender
• Honesty
• Speech