Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gould Davis

Proof that the penis is a much later development than the female vulva is found in the evidence that the male himself was a late mutation from an original female creature. For man is but an imperfect female. Geneticists and physiologists tell us that the Y chromosome that produces males is a deformed and broken X chromosome — the female chromosome. All women have two X chromosomes, while the male has one X derived from his mother and one Y from his father. It seems very logical that this small and twisted Y chromosome is a genetic error — an accident of nature, and that originally there was only one sex — the female.

Man | Method | Need | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Doctrine | Sin | Woman | Victim |

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Absolute | Attainment | Labor | Means | Nature | Sacrifice | Woman | Worth |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

Dignity | Religion | Sense | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

Man | Men | Woman |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

Defense | Men | Woman | Worry |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak ... you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Courage | Father | God | Good | Qualities | Will | Woman | God |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government.

Rights | Woman |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Life | Life | Woman |

Ella Grasso, born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

Will | Woman | Think |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Action | Argument | Association | Church | Consideration | Convention | God | Hope | Nature | Will | Woman | Association | God |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Woman |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, perhaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all-female world.

Earth | Man | Power | Religion | System | Will | Woman | Wonder | World | Old |

Dorothy Parker

I hate writing, I love having written.

Men | Woman | Old |

Dorothy Parker

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Better | Fighting | Hell | Men | Thought | Woman | Old | Thought |

Dorothy Parker

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

Books | Men | Woman |

Dorothy Parker

My love runs by like a day in June, and he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon in the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- and I wish somebody'd shoot him.

Obligation | Woman |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Love | Man | Woman |

Dorothy Parker

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Woman |