Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
- Ernestine Rose Quote

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
- Ernestine Rose Quote

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

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.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

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.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
- Ernestine Rose Quote

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
- Ernestine Rose Quote

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
- Ernestine Rose Quote