6 Quotes & Sayings By Ernestine Rose

Ernestine Rose is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles who won the 2004 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Television: Episodic Comedy or Drama Script. She's written for The Simpsons, VERONICA MARS, The Drew Carey Show, and various other shows. Some of her original works can be seen in the 2006 indie feature film THE DEVIL'S PARTNERSHIP and on FOX's THE SIMPSONS, where she co-wrote the episode "The Squirt and the Whale".

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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. Ernestine Rose
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. Ernestine Rose
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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
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It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still. Ernestine Rose
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If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Ernestine Rose