416 quotes found
“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
“[Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all ...”
“An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's conte...”
“Almost from the beginning, Lucy Stone had run-ins with the established code of female propriety. Every Sunday morning the students had to sit through a long chapel service. Lucy, who suffered from ...”
“... on May 1, 1855, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell were married. Before the minister began the ceremony, Henry read the protest which he and Lucy had prepared: "While acknowledging our mutual affec...”
“Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to "stand back and wait." [Frederick] Douglas said t...”
“In 1879, Massachusetts allow women to vote in school elections. Lucy Stone went to register, but when she discovered that she would have to sign as Mr.s Blackwell, she refused, and so forfeited her...”
“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”
“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studieswith the result that they know more about devoting care...”
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
“Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.”
“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what youre needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a fu...”
“All this hurrying from place to place wont bring you any relief, for youre traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.”
“The trip doesnt exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to hara...”
“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be tra...”
“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the ...”
