you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did. Marietta Holley More Quotes by Marietta Holley More Quotes From Marietta Holley But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on. Marietta Holley womendepthgoes-on I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth. Marietta Holley windordercountry [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book. Marietta Holley pursuit-of-happinesslightbook It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral. Marietta Holley equalitymenthinking High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she. Marietta Holley compassionblessedlong I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones. Marietta Holley equalityangelson I love to see folks use reason if they have got any. Marietta Holley folksusereason I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized. Marietta Holley reformwarideas Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives. Marietta Holley emspoliticalthinking
