Creative Quotations from . . .
Martha Carey Thomas
(1857-1935) born on Jan 02
US "educator, feminist". "She championed excellence in higher education for women; helped found, and then was the first dean and president of Bryn Mawr College."
 
   
F
One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

R
. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
A
"My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . ."
N
"It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth."
K
The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 2, by Edith Finch, 1947."
R: "In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 1, by Edith Finch, 1947."
A: "In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 1, by Edith Finch, 1947."
N: "Address, North American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo, New York, Oct 1908."
K: "Address, North American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo, New York, Oct 1908."



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