Occupation: Activist Birth: November 12, 1815 Death: October 26, 1902
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 miseri….
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions..
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on..
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations..
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal..
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ….
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man ….
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns..
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice..
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves..
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another..
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government..
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages..
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from rep….
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman..
The best protection any woman can have... is courage..
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous….
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving..
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clo….
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….