Mary Edwards Walker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Men #Protect #Protector
You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Happiness #Reality #People
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Generations #Uniforms
You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Inspiring #Men #Ironic
[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Clothes #Suffering #Sorrow
I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Women #Believe #Class
If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Divorce #Married #Shut Up
A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.
-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Men #Thinking #Pace

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
No one man is superior to the game.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well
Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Mary Edwards Walker famous quotes

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