Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes

#1. My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Marjane Satrapi

#2. There was not one way of salvation in Israel and another way in the new covenant (Christian) community. Justification is by faith now; justification was by faith back then. The meritorious ground of salvation in the Old Testament was the merit of Christ, not the merit of bulls and goats.

R.C. Sproul

#3. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.

Alice Notley

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#5. I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Sally Mann

#6. 3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

Dave Eggers

#7. I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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

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

#11. Keep your heart free of hate. Be loving happy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Ken Burns

#13. 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

#14. History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

Nelson Mandela

#15. 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

#16. Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I never saw so much life left in someone who had lived so much," said Bernice Latelle, a gospel singer who lived in Bessie's neighborhood and heard her at the Wander Inn. "I don't think anybody or anything could break that woman's spirit.

Chris Albertson

#18. Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

Haruki Murakami

#19. 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

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#22. How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

Elspeth Huxley

#23. 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

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#25. 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

#26. But the ruinous thing about growing up is that we stop creating mysteries where none exist, and worse, we usually try to deconstruct and deny the genuine mysteries that remain. We argue against God, against true romance, against loyalty and self-sacrifice.

Leif Enger

#27. 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