Freedom to think our own thoughts, freedom to utter them, freedom to live out the promptings of our inner life ultimated in this c...onvention, was termed a monstrosity of the 19th century. What was it?--the legitimate out-birth of the eternal law of progress. This reformation underlies every other; it is the only healthful centre around which hope of humanity can revolve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spir...itual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... dissatisfied with city expenditures, the inequality of public school education, (sexualizing education), your remonstrant pays... her taxes compulsorily instead of cheerfully, feeling within her that element of patriotism which inspired her as well as your forefathers, in the utterance of that deep, full, and clear sentiment, "Taxation without representation is tyranny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will n...ever be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of the ...drawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talk of politeness when humanity is perishing--of the sacred sphere of woman when thousands of my sisters are prostitutes--how man...y from necessity, God only knows. I have not the least patience with the exquisite dandy and the fashionable flirt attempting to define proprieties--they have money, let them define dollars. Neither have I patience with a set of croakers who regret the present state of things; but how can it be helped? say they with a yawn. Look at your widowed sister struggling to preserve a home--the hectic on that cheek, produced by overtasking her physical strength, tells you death will soon set his seal upon her. Look at that married woman--sleepless nights and toilsome days cloud her brow and irritate her temper. Shall woman's voice be hushed when woman's shrieks are heard? Shall woman quench her light, when clouds of invisible sorrows gather thick round woman's head?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prevailing idea ... is, that the doctor is to cure the disease. It is not so. The doctor and the patient together, are to cure... or mitigate the disease. They must be coworkers. In order to be so, there must be the ... the most cordial sympathy and frankness between them. It is rarely that this can be so between a male physician and a female patient. Therefore, the female physician, is the physician for the female patient.... In a few years the medical profession will be equally shared between men and women; public opinion is fast tending to bring this about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a mor...al sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property--whether he had failed in business--if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws of... the South ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »