I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in co…

- Lillie Devereux Blake

the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate p…

- Lillie Devereux Blake

It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wa…

- Lillie Devereux Blake

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

- Lillie Devereux Blake

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that …

- Lillie Devereux Blake

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

- Lillie Devereux Blake