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.
Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one’s natural life.
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
The best protection any woman can have … is courage.
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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.
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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 whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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?
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.