Duty Quotes by Matilda Joslyn Gage

1 Duty quote by Matilda Joslyn Gage

All Duty quotes Matilda Joslyn Gage’s page

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

Other authors on Duty

More by Matilda Joslyn Gage

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

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

Image

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord… Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual,…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image