Joslyn Gage Quotes

#1. 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

#2. He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever man of the world of established position can hardly help taking himself rather seriously.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#4. Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#5. Non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#6. 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

#7. I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

Phyllis Diller

#8. 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

#9. I believe thinking about being old or even dying eradicates that fear. Fear can control you or you can control it; it's a conscious decision. A life lived with fear doesn't sound that enjoyable to me.

Peter James Barkley

#10. I kissed her temple, and we continued through the doors. Our past was now and now was in the past. Just as she'd promised, we were together again, in a moment of no sickness or pain - only love. And when love was real, so was forever.

Jamie McGuire

#11. Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

James Taylor

#12. Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

Padgett Powell

#13. The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#14. Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?

Carlos A. Godoy

#15. The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

Myles Munroe

#16. It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#17. You're a great man, General, greater than anyone," she told him. "But love is still too big for you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. 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

#19. The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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