Plant Quotes by Antoinette Brown Blackwell

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffragewas right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell