Women Who Kill Quotes

“At the same time, popular notions of marriage and the home were challenged on other fronts. Utopian communities experimented with radical new forms of marriage or, as in the Oneida Community, did away with it altogether. The Shakers took up celibacy, the Mormons polygamy; and Charles Knowlton issued an underground best-seller on birth control methods. William Alcott, Catherine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and scores of other experts countered”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“Temperance workers protested the economic dependence that made married women subject to drunken husbands. Organizations of women workers sought respect and higher wages for women’s labor. Women’s”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“they were all just as ignorant as Blackstone was of the chancery law system that had long tempered the inequities of Blackstone’s beloved Common Law in both England and the American colonies. Under the old doctrine of the femme covert, which Blackstone almost single-handedly revived, married women legally died; they lost their property rights, their rights to contract and sue, and even the right to custody of their own children and possession of their own bodies. At the same time, the states, one by one, acted to correct an “oversight” in their constitutions; in 1798 New York inserted the word male in the section dealing with suffrage.”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore.”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“To a large extent, then, the position of women and girls worsened in the early nineteenth century because the work of most of them did not change at a time when everything else was changing very rapidly. Those”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“those who married and bore children, and those who worked and consequently were not really women at all. The”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

“Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living.     —Mother Jones”
― Ann Jones, Women Who Kill