Atheism Quote by Margaret Sanger Download Open image “I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.” — Margaret Sanger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Esther Positive atheism Rebellious Wanted
“The young woman almost lost control of the emotions that flooded her. "...I'm terrified of the king!" "Why," Esther asked trying to encourage the girl to talk about it. "Why shouldn't I be?" Artystone looked almost defiant. "He is the king, He can order me killed if he wishes! I will never be allowed to return home. I must remain… — Bethany N. Wallace Copy Share
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“If you ever happen to become a clothier-cum-messenger like Esther, you'll soon learn that only wealth, might and legendary romances stir people's curiosity. Everything… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel,… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself...and despite all the arguments of all the philosophers, Esther now saw that thought proved nothing. Had Descartes, near his own death, come at last to see his folly? The mind was only an apparatus within the mechanism of the body… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share
I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be. — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women!… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood… — John Eldredge Copy Share
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions…… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image