[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good ...government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep a...s I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was... established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. ...It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes--love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself--and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others--should we call it "joy"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political stru...ctures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective" ...and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My name was Isabella; but when I left the house of bondage, I left everything behind. I wa'n't goin' to keep nothin' of Egypt on m...e, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And the Lord gave me Sojourner, because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins, an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterward I told the Lord I wanted another name, 'cause everybody else had two names; and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare Truth to the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »