Antoinette Brown Blackwell famous quotes

03-24-2025

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Acceptance #Men #Suggestions
Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Plant #Enjoy #Feels
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Responsibility #Men #Class
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Family #Justice #Proxy
Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Children #Feelings #Perception
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Law #Infancy
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Light #Principles #Belief
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Eye #Men #Stronger
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Sex #Species #Identical
One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think â€¦
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Thinking #World #May
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Years #Two
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Slavery
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Memorable #Men #Salvation
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Feelings #Brain #Sole
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Goal #Competition #Trying
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Sex #Differences #Mind

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