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Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American activist and social reformer. Born on March 24, 1826, and died on March 18, 1898, Gage is renowned for her relentless pursuit of women's suffrage and gender equality, being a key figure in the American women's rights movement of the 19th century.

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Famous Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes

“Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.”

Thinking Men States Religion Church Divine Church And State Divine Right

Book:Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate

Source: Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate

“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”

Men Sometimes Dead Man

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“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

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Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.”

Men Said Mother Strange Intellect Stations Inferiors Absurdity Conceded

Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment.”

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Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage