Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
baby nurse selfishness
It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.
employment anticipation pursuit
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
might helping fame
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.
identity matter
it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.
imperfect institutions inequality
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...
imagination awakened ought
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
spiritual self desire
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.
christian ideas littles
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
punishment rewards consideration
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
funny-inspirational thinker reader
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
christian feelings suffering
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.
party two political
In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.
sex race iron
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?
strong years feelings
While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.