Helen H. Gardener Quotes

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar.... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who do fear him.

Thus far woman has struggled through life with bandaged eyes, accepting the dogma of her weakness and inability to take care of herself not only physically but intellectually. She has held out a trembling hand and received gratefully the proffered aid. She has foregone her right to study, to know the laws and purposes of government to which she is subject. But there is now awakened in her a consciousness that she is defrauded of her legitimate Rights and that she never can fulfill her mission until she is placed in that position to which she feels herself called by the divinity within. Hitherto she has surrendered her person and her individuality to man, but she can no longer do this and not feel that she is outraging her nature and her God

Islamic Law [Sharia] … gives men the right to marry more than one woman, and refers to women as “complementary” rather than “equal” to men.

The world of humanity is possessed of two wings, the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.