The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
