Witchcraft 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