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
deprive eternal knowing less
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
weed spring flower
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
husband law voice
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.
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.
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.
equality rights liberty
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
atheists children religion remain
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
cultivate equal intellect man mind portion
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.