Conventions Quote by Julia Ward Howe Download Open image “Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.” — Julia Ward Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventions Massachusetts Old time
Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The State House is notorious for its crazy, unpredictable work hours - it's a big reason why women are deterred from entering the legislature… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“[The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!” — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern… — C. D. Innes Copy Share
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share
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