Mary Livermore Quotes
1820–1905 United States
Mary Livermore (born Mary Ashton Rice; December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights.
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Obedience to the behests of duty gives peace, even when love is lacking; and peace is a diviner thing than happiness.
The very highest function of woman is to raise and train the family; it is the very highest function of man also.
Good health is a great prerequisite of successful or happy living.
Children require simple food, early hours for retiring, and abundance of sleep, as well as freedom from social and religious excitements.
Every boy should have a special fitting for some aim in life. ..Industry is a great means of grace.
“What shall we do with our daughters?” is really the sum and substance of what, I popular phase, is called “the woman question.”
Our social structure has been based on the theory that “all men support all women,” a theory which has never been true, and which is farther from being true to-day than ever before.
Nature has so constituted us that the sexes act and react upon each other, making every “woman’s cause” a man’s cause, and every man’s cause a woman’s cause
no phase of the great movement for the advancement of women has progressed so slowly, as that which demands their technical and industrial training.
Thomas Hughes, the author of “Tom Brown at Rugby,” has written a little book called “The Manliness of Christ” It would be an excellent thing if our young men became sufficiently interested in this book to read it.
the prophecies of evil always inspired by a growing reform
While it is undoubted true that the practice of tight lacing is regarded with growing disfavor, it is also true that the corsets in vogue, at present, are more objectionable than those worn even half a century ago.