21 quotes
It is time that "equality" stop being a vain phrase, and that the rights of both men and women be equal.
A Nation of Women (1911)
I cannot explain why a man always feels he has rights over a woman.
A Nation of Women (1911)
The current social system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.
A Nation of Women (1911)
Education is the mother of freedom; science is her eldest daughter; and her sisters, tolerance and discretion, with rights and responsibilities.
A Nation of Women (1911)
Let us study and prepare our generation for the future struggles, which lie ahead.
A Nation of Women (1911)
Individuals of both sexes have fallen into the error of believing that it is only men that have the right to use their freedom as they please.
A Nation of Women (1911)
Parents should guide and educate the child, but not punish them. It is a mistake to believe that mistreating and tormenting a child is a proper way to raise them.
A Nation of Women (1911)
A man only used to seeing a woman as an object of pleasure forgets that she is destined to be the mother and teacher of a new generation.
A Nation of Women (1911)
The only thing we want to put forth is that women must acquire greater freedom and rights. The current system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.
A Nation of Women (1911)
She’s a woman, not only when she’s powdered and wearing lace and ribbons, just like a man doesn’t stop being a man when he learns to cook, mend, sweep and sew.
A Nation of Women (1911)
No doubt, the first and best school is the home. The best and most superior teacher for the child is an educated mother
A Nation of Women (1911)
If women were appropriately enlightened, educated and emancipated from routine formulism, the political life of most nations would be different
A Nation of Women (1911)
Education means cultivating patience, tolerance, a sweet disposition, harmony, abnegation, and temperateness. Anyone who cultivates these virtues is truly educated.
A Nation of Women (1911)
what others consider utopian is for me something that can become reality.
A Nation of Women (1911)
useful hands are preferable to ones that are merely beautiful.
A Nation of Women (1911)
women are capable of everything and anything
A Nation of Women (1911)
Harmony within a marriage greatly influences the education of children, our future citizens. How many times have a mother’s tears, cried in moments of pain and contradiction, powerfully influenced her children!
A Nation of Women (1911)
We should explain material things to them just like they are, without adding or omitting a thing. Truth must be the fundamental base of a child's upbringing. And the parents are obliged to refrain from deceiving their children and to teach them not to deceive others.
A Nation of Women (1911)
My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love, the abolition of marriage and the substitution of private property for public property.
A Nation of Women (1911)
Although we are all brothers, some die of hunger and of foodstuffs, clothing and shoes. And with so many naked and bare-while what is useful and necessary rots at the depots and warehouses
A Nation of Women (1911)