Top 13 Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes
#1. While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#2. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#3. History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#4. The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#5. Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#8. Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#9. Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom
the Church.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#10. The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#12. Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#13. There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
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