A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe |
And thus it ever is: so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when she dares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, a |
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving |
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. |
I shall not grow conservative with age |
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul. |
Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she mig |
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. |
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. |
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth |
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long- established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation |
The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage. |
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation |
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation |
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation |