Purpose Quotes by Mary Edwards Walker

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like…

— Mary Edwards Walker

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

— Mary Edwards Walker

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

— Mary Edwards Walker

A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

— Mary Edwards Walker

I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class…

— Mary Edwards Walker

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

— Mary Edwards Walker

[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their…

— Mary Edwards Walker

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

— Mary Edwards Walker