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Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes

1825–1921 United States

Antoinette Brown Blackwell (20 May 1825 – 5 November 1921), was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time, and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights.

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Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

Other things being equal, the law seems to be directly reversed.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

Whenever man does not interfere, monogamy seems to be the general order of Nature with all higher organisms.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

The warlike duty of defense is also borne chiefly by males, and must often be an immense tax on the energies.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than between growth and thought, growth and muscular activity, growth and breathing.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

Growth and eating are antagonistic.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

The antagonism is only that of action and reaction, which are but two phases of the same process—opposing phases which exist everywhere, and which must exist, or action itself cease, and death reign universally.

The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antoinette Brown Blackwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.