The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer...
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday...
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner bei...