Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage
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
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?

Matilda Joslyn Gage
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.

Matilda Joslyn Gage