Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Hopes, not just smiling. Smile your face, smile your mind, and good energy will come to you and remove dirty energy.

Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But since he had the genius to be loved, why let him have the justice to be honored in his grave.

Love | Man | Woman |

Elizabeth Lesser

I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the gift of not belonging.

Earth | Good | Heart | Reverence | Talking | Woman | Old |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Better | Care | Order | Question | Solitude | Will | Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech the love I bear thee, finding words enough, and hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, between our faces, to cast light on each? -I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach my hand to hold my spirits so far off from myself--me--that I should bring thee proof in words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood commend my woman-love to thy belief, - seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, and rend the garment of my life, in brief, by a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

Love | Man | Woman |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

Mother | Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, as color follows light. He overflows the firmamental walls with deity, therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad, his pity may do so, His angels must, whene'er He gives them charges.

Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Action | Means | Men | Rest | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Impulse | Inferiority | Religion | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Insult | Little | Woman | Insult |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

Beginning | Man | Men | Method | Need | Society | Woman | Society |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Belief | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Church | Regard | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

Wife | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Learning | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Man | Need | Safe | Thought | Woman | Thought |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman... I have been traveling over the old world during the last few years and have found new food for thought. What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself upon the funeral pyre of her husband? Her religion. What holds the Turkish woman in the harem? Her religion. By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy? By their religion/ Man, of himself, could not do this; but when he declares, 'Thus saith the Lord,' of course he can do it. So long as ministers stand up and tell us Christ is the head of the church, so is man the head of woman, how are we to break the chains which have held women down through the ages? You Christian women look at the Hindu, the Turkish, the Mormon women, and wonder how they can be held in such bondage...

Indignation | Woman |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- to waste on one the riches of her soul, who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Life | Life | Love | Time | Will | Woman |