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Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.
If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.
To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.