Anna Doyle Wheeler Quotes
Anna Doyle Wheeler was an Irish-born British socialist and feminist philosopher of the early nineteenth century, the principal philosophical collaborator of William Thompson and one of the founding figures of the British socialist-feminist tradition. The Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, of 1825, written by Thompson and based, by his own acknowledgment, on her ideas and arguments, mounted a sustained Owenite-utilitarian case for the political and economic equality of women, in conscious response to James Mill's Article on Government. The quotes below are attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler, organized by topic.
Anna Doyle Wheeler on Freedom
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Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:
“What women suffer is not nature's fault but custom's, and custom may be remade.”
Anna Doyle Wheeler on Knowledge
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Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:
“Reason on the side of liberty is the most powerful of all instruments.”
Anna Doyle Wheeler on Politics
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Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:
“Until the means of subsistence are equal between the sexes, equality between them is a fiction.”
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Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:
“The Appeal is on behalf of one half the human race against the pretensions of the other.”
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Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:
“Owenite cooperation is the political form in which sexual equality may at last be lived.”