Has beens Quotes by 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

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

— 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

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

— 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…

— 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

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

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

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

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we…

— 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