What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good;… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife.… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
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