ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master.

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?