Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of ones self- sovereignty.
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of ones self- sovereignty.
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea the solitude of self.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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