The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.
I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the ‘new woman’ is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.