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Judith Sargent Murray Quotes

Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is

Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

Judith Sargent Murray
Brother, Believe, Hands
Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.

Judith Sargent Murray
Sex, Fall, Law

Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.

Judith Sargent Murray
Determination, Stars, Truth
Judith Sargent Murray (1992). “The gleaner”, Syracuse Univ Pr

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

Judith Sargent Murray
Women, Soul, Religion
Judith Sargent Murray (1992). “The gleaner”, Syracuse Univ Pr

A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.

Judith Sargent Murray
Heart, Atmosphere, Expansion

By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

Judith Sargent Murray
Men, Yield, Law

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