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Antoinette Brown Blackwell
13 quotes
“Growth and eating are antagonistic.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than between growth and thought, growth and muscular activity, growth and breathing.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The antagonism is only that of action and reaction, which are but two phases of the same process—opposing phases which exist everywhere, and which must exist, or action itself cease, and death reign universally.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If it could be shown that men or women who are the parents of many children have thereby lost something of individual power, we might then be forced to admit that the greater cost related to the reproductive system in women must be at their personal expense, not at the expense of the nutriment which they assimilate and eliminate.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration; every use of faculty belongs to the latter class. There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than between growth and thought, growth and muscular activity, growth and breathing.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other things being equal, the law seems to be directly reversed.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One activity initiates another; the largest individual force maintains those more active adjustments, "simultaneous and successive," between the internal and external, which indicate the most vigorous life. We must look, then, to something more than a direct antagonism, between growth and reproduction, to account for unlikeness's of the sexes in plant or animal.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature's sturdiest buds and her best-fed butterflies belong to this sex; her female spiders are large enough to eat up a score of her little males; some of her mother-fishes might parody the nursery-song, "I have a little husband no bigger than my thumb.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If women normally have equal appropriative powers with men, the surplus nutriment not needed for their smaller physiques may be constitutionally handed over to reproduction. Natural selection has originated an admirably complete system of related provisions to this distinct end. This fact must lead us to the conclusion that the aggregate of feminine force is the full and fair equivalent of all masculine force, physical or psychical.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever man does not interfere, monogamy seems to be the general order of Nature with all higher organisms.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The warlike duty of defense is also borne chiefly by males, and must often be an immense tax on the energies.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In women, if there is a greater arrest of individual growth than in men, the difference begins in the fœtal life; their comparative weight and size at birth are the same as at maturity; and, if the former finish their growth earlier, it must be because relatively they grow more rapidly.”
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source