Birth: May 20, 1825 Death: November 5, 1921
One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think..
Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefst….
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical..
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all..
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal..
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy..
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling..
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions..
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy..
God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint domin….
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be sub….
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor m….
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest….
Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer pre….
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman..
Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?.
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic..
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions..