Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Louise Rosewas an atheist feminist, individualist feminist, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth13 January 1810
CountryUnited States of America
men trying care
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
men resistance blind
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
husband father men
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
men rights giving
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
men done causes
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
responsibility men married
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
character men rights
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
men intellectual meteors
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
men taste made
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
deprive eternal knowing less
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
government laws principle recognized spite taxed
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
earn exercise faculties grant human life powers suppose
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
cultivate equal intellect man mind portion
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
atheists children religion remain
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.