Occupation: Author Birth: March 24, 1855 Death: December 11, 1920
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, a….
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife….
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them..
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue..
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again..
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World..
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, w….
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relation….
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her ….
Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will fe….
We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen….
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep..
Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist..
Soul, what have I to do with you?.
The surest sign of fitness is success..
genius has no limit of sex or race..
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything..
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman….
There was never a great man who had not a great mother..
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea..
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there ….