QUOTES
I
do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
It
is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
No
man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good
he seeks.
It
appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless
spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust -- ready
to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it
together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable -- and
life is more than a dream.
The
beginning is always today.
Taught
from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body,
and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Let
not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings
and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be
subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution
in female manners -- time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time
to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Strengthen
the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Men,
in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to
root them out.
Only
that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which
teaches young people how to begin to think.
