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.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellThere 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.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellGod 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.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellThe sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellNature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellAny positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellNo matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellWomen's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellEvery 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.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellMr. 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.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellWe 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.
Antoinette Brown Blackwellif human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
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