Ernestine Rose Quotes

• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Father, Power

• Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Understand

• Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Mind

• Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character – that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Character, Woman

• But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband & Wife

• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Freedom

• Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband & Wife

• It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Interesting, Fact

• It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Woman

• Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Married, Responsibilities

• In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that ‘taxation without representation is tyranny,’ she is taxed without being represented.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Rules

• If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Husband & Wife

• The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Benefit

• Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Opinions

• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation – the one is life, the other death.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Motto

• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Public, Opinion

• In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Care

• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Married

• Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Philosophy

• I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

  Ernestine Rose

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Romance

Ernestine Rose (36)

Birth:	13th January, 1810
Death:	4th August, 1892
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Feminist, Reformer

About

Ernestine Louise Rose was born in  Piotrków Trybunalski, Congress Poland. He was a poland-born American feminist, social reformer, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America. In the United States, Rose’s extemporaneous speeches on religious freedom, public education, abolition, and women’s rights earned her the title “Queen of the Platform.” She lectured frequently in New York and nearby states.

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