It was an intellectual slavery; one never could get rid of thinking of herself, and the important thing is to forget self.

The attention of my audience was fixed upon my clothes instead of my words.

I learned the lesson then that to be successful a person must attempt but one reform.

By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

I have felt ever since that experience that if I wished my hearers to consider the suffrage question I must not present the temperance, the religious, the dress, or any other besides, but must confine myself to suffrage." With the exception of that one year, Miss Anthony always has been particular to follow, in a modified and conservative form, the prevailing styles, and has fought strenuously the repeated efforts to graft any kind of dress reform on the suffrage movement.
In March, 1854, after getting back into long skirts, Miss Anthony decided to go to Washington with Mrs.Rose, and see how the propaganda of equal rights would be received at the capital of the nation.