Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time, and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth20 May 1825
CountryUnited States of America
children feelings perception
Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.
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Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
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Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
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We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think …
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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
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There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.
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The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
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The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.
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if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
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If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.
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Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?
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Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.
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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.