The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and polit…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration t…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any m…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid te…

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin