Puritan Women

Famous quotes containing the words puritan and/or women:

“The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)