Great Throughts Treasury

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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

The soul is of itself, all verges to it, all has reference to what ensures, all that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence, not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death, but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is just as much as the direct, the spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.

Body | Character | Day | Death | Man | Soul | Spirit | Woman |

Marguerite De Valois, or Margaret of Valois, Marguerite de France

A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Character | Honor | Woman |

Matthias Alexander, fully Frederick Matthias Alexander

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection: it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Effort | Man | Perfection | Understanding | Wisdom | Woman | Child |

Alexander Walker

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

Character | Man | Time | Woman |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways but that man or woman is as good as God? And that there is no God any more divine than yourself.

Character | God | Good | Man | Woman | God |

Ralph Waldo Trine

No clear-thinking or clear-seeing man or woman can be an apostle of despair. He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Character | Despair | Man | Thinking | Woman |

Jean de La Bruyère

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Love | Wisdom | Woman |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

Atheism | Beauty | Fidelity | Hope | Men | Mother | People | Religion | Sensibility | Wisdom | Woman | Beauty |

Declaration of American Women NULL

Man-made barriers, laws, social customs and prejudices continue to keep a majority of women in an inferior position without full control of our lives and bodies. From infancy throughout life, in personal and public relations, in the family, in the schools, in every occupation and profession, too often we find our individuality, our capabilities, our earning powers diminished by discriminatory practices and outmoded ideas of what a woman is, what a woman can do, and what a woman must be... We lack effective political and economic power We have only minor and insignificant roles in making, interpreting and enforcing our laws, in running our political parties, businesses, unions, schools and institutions, in directing the media, in governing our country, in deciding issues of war or peace. We do not seek special privileges, but we demand as a human right a full voice and role for women in determining the destiny of our world, our nation, our families and our individual lives.

Control | Destiny | Family | Ideas | Individual | Individuality | Infancy | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Occupation | Peace | Position | Power | Public | Right | War | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Félix Dupanloup, fully Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing and love must be perpetuated by esteem.

Esteem | Husband | Life | Life | Love | Mind | Unity | Wisdom | Woman | Youth |

Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Better | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

Father | Man | Mother | Wisdom | Woman |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

Beauty | Man | Passion | Wisdom | Woman | Beauty |

Brendan Francis Behan

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

John Hall

Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with persons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. As far as possible, dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards where a constant process of depreciating, assigning motives, and cutting up character goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who is healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, God knows. But it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible, and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

Character | Charity | Conversation | Enough | Evil | Family | Gentleness | God | Good | Man | Mission | Motives | Wisdom | Woman | God |

Ellen Goodman

There is no shower for a woman when she completes the trimester of her life spent as a full-time mother. There is no midwife to help that woman deliver a healthy adult.

Life | Life | Mother | Time | Wisdom | Woman |