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
marriage men glances
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
atheism superstitions next
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.
hopeful genius characteristics
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
anxiety feelings degrees
We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.
future thinking preparation
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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.