There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when …

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her te…

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life …

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man h…

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of …

- Matilda Joslyn Gage