ThursdayFeb 05, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
... this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
I can see that 'reap' and 'deep,' 'prayers' and 'bears,' ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform.
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Failure is impossible.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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