Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Louise Rosewas an atheist feminist, individualist feminist, and abolitionist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth13 January 1810
CountryUnited States of America
hate sick unhappy
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
successful wife suffering
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.
reality romance stubborn
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.
book rights letters
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
husband father men
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.
together slavery slavery-freedom
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
atheist children interesting
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
say-anything sin ifs
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
humble voice rights
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
opposites agitation motto
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
powerful character law
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.
prejudice reason elevation
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
luxury world owing
there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.
atheist punishment atheism
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.