Top 25 Gertrude Beasley Quotes (2024 Update)

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “One evening, I sat in my room reading; it was the first time in my life I ever felt conscious that people were unnecessary to me. I had rather sit there, my feet on a chair near the radiator, reading, than talk to anyone.”

1. “One evening, I sat in my room reading; it was the first time in my life I ever felt conscious that people were unnecessary to me. I had rather sit there, my feet on a chair near the radiator, reading, than talk to anyone.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Not a single friend or relative came to see me graduate; I was sorry and glad too; sorry there was no one to pat me on the back, and glad that none of my family were there, for I should have wanted to drop dead each time one of them opened his mouth. I believe to many, this attitude would be inconceivable; it is difficult to explain how one suffers from it.”

2. “Not a single friend or relative came to see me graduate; I was sorry and glad too; sorry there was no one to pat me on the back, and glad that none of my family were there, for I should have wanted to drop dead each time one of them opened his mouth. I believe to many, this attitude would be inconceivable; it is difficult to explain how one suffers from it.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Now a new era was dawning in my life; I could be absolutely happy in my room or the library alone. I was going to enjoy my study now.”

3. “Now a new era was dawning in my life; I could be absolutely happy in my room or the library alone. I was going to enjoy my study now.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “At times I doubted, too; all men were beasts or fools; the man could make love at the beginning but the woman was always let down and was heartbroken. I had seen enough of it and I wasn’t going to be a fool. I wouldn’t have had my mother and my sisters gossiping about me, as she and myself used to gossip about the others, for anything in the world.”

4. “At times I doubted, too; all men were beasts or fools; the man could make love at the beginning but the woman was always let down and was heartbroken. I had seen enough of it and I wasn’t going to be a fool. I wouldn’t have had my mother and my sisters gossiping about me, as she and myself used to gossip about the others, for anything in the world.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “You have no right to take my bread and butter away from me merely because you disagree with,” I called out, pounding the table with my fist.”

5. “You have no right to take my bread and butter away from me merely because you disagree with,” I called out, pounding the table with my fist.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I hoped she was having the child because she had loved and wanted it; and I prayed she would be happy. It was a terrible thing to bring a human being into the world under any circumstance; a tragedy, yes, a crime to bring one unloved, unwanted.”

6. “I hoped she was having the child because she had loved and wanted it; and I prayed she would be happy. It was a terrible thing to bring a human being into the world under any circumstance; a tragedy, yes, a crime to bring one unloved, unwanted.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Clothes were wonderful things; one ought always to wear a hat as saucy and pretty as mine before going to see an editor.”

7. “Clothes were wonderful things; one ought always to wear a hat as saucy and pretty as mine before going to see an editor.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I know what’s the matter with us; I know why we hate one another so much; it’s because there never was a speck of love in our family!”

8. “I know what’s the matter with us; I know why we hate one another so much; it’s because there never was a speck of love in our family!”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I was well aware from my first conscious moments, when I was about four years old, that the general idea of their mental superiority prevalent among men was fallacious.”

9. “I was well aware from my first conscious moments, when I was about four years old, that the general idea of their mental superiority prevalent among men was fallacious.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure.”

10. “Mrs. Sanger was a woman who would have understood my mother, I was sure.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I was not the kind of person to be entrusted with a gun; I might lose my head and use it sometime. The whole theory of guns, armaments in general, as a protection, was a fallacy; the idea was revolting.”

11. “I was not the kind of person to be entrusted with a gun; I might lose my head and use it sometime. The whole theory of guns, armaments in general, as a protection, was a fallacy; the idea was revolting.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I was angry and would have liked to quarrel with her; that was a good thing to separate on; she believed one thing and I believed another; I had a right to stick to my opinion. Besides then I would be free and I would have all of my own money. But I thought again; she had about the hardest life I had ever heard of.”

12. “I was angry and would have liked to quarrel with her; that was a good thing to separate on; she believed one thing and I believed another; I had a right to stick to my opinion. Besides then I would be free and I would have all of my own money. But I thought again; she had about the hardest life I had ever heard of.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Education was a thing which you couldn’t take away from a person.”

13. “Education was a thing which you couldn’t take away from a person.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Oh God, it had been hard, but she had been brave, had held out to the end; how I ever dared to be critical of a woman whom life had hurt and scarred as it had hurt my mother was incomprehensible.”

14. “Oh God, it had been hard, but she had been brave, had held out to the end; how I ever dared to be critical of a woman whom life had hurt and scarred as it had hurt my mother was incomprehensible.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I sank down every night on my knees at my bed and prayed, it seemed to me, as I had never prayed before. I don’t remember what I said, but I think I was asking for strength, strength, and more strength. As far as I recall, I went on talking atheism to the girls and continued prayers while locked in my room.”

15. “I sank down every night on my knees at my bed and prayed, it seemed to me, as I had never prayed before. I don’t remember what I said, but I think I was asking for strength, strength, and more strength. As far as I recall, I went on talking atheism to the girls and continued prayers while locked in my room.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “He said I was extremely critical; I had written articles criticizing almost every phase of school work in the whole state. But, I protested, criticism is the chief aim of higher learning; Professor Parker at the University of Chicago held that the chief aim of a University was to make students critically minded.”

16. “He said I was extremely critical; I had written articles criticizing almost every phase of school work in the whole state. But, I protested, criticism is the chief aim of higher learning; Professor Parker at the University of Chicago held that the chief aim of a University was to make students critically minded.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “This was the beginning of my various ambitions which have gradually consumed me during the last quarter of a century and virtually incapacitated me for supplying my quota of seven sons and six daughters to the state.”

17. “This was the beginning of my various ambitions which have gradually consumed me during the last quarter of a century and virtually incapacitated me for supplying my quota of seven sons and six daughters to the state.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “He makes money and gives it to the Lord and pays the girls who work for him starvation wages. Do you call that Christianity? I call that slavery. Do you call that serving God? I call it thievery.”

18. “He makes money and gives it to the Lord and pays the girls who work for him starvation wages. Do you call that Christianity? I call that slavery. Do you call that serving God? I call it thievery.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Brother Druery said you should marry for love and then character and money if you could. But I think my mother or my sister mentioned that love went out the window when people were poor, or too poor.”

19. “Brother Druery said you should marry for love and then character and money if you could. But I think my mother or my sister mentioned that love went out the window when people were poor, or too poor.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “America is the land of murderous institutions though. To be sure, they do not kill the body, but they leave us like Frankenstein’s monster, a being without a soul.”

20. “America is the land of murderous institutions though. To be sure, they do not kill the body, but they leave us like Frankenstein’s monster, a being without a soul.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Ah God,′ said she, “what a different woman I would-a been if ennybody had ever cared for me.” I wanted to throw myself at her feet and clutch at her skirts, “But, Mother, I’m here: don’t forget; I’m here,” I wanted to cry out. Once when she talked like that I made a vow: “I will do something about it, I will tell, Mother; I will tell, I swear I will tell your story.”

21. “Ah God,′ said she, “what a different woman I would-a been if ennybody had ever cared for me.” I wanted to throw myself at her feet and clutch at her skirts, “But, Mother, I’m here: don’t forget; I’m here,” I wanted to cry out. Once when she talked like that I made a vow: “I will do something about it, I will tell, Mother; I will tell, I swear I will tell your story.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Watch me! From now on I’m going to tell people what it what. A wishy-washy life isn’t worth a damn!”

22. “Watch me! From now on I’m going to tell people what it what. A wishy-washy life isn’t worth a damn!”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “The Socialists had always stood for woman suffrage and would continue to work for the women regardless of whether or not they received a single vote from the Women’s Party. I knew whom I would vote for.”

23. “The Socialists had always stood for woman suffrage and would continue to work for the women regardless of whether or not they received a single vote from the Women’s Party. I knew whom I would vote for.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “Nearly all women who worked with their brains shared my difficulties.”

24. “Nearly all women who worked with their brains shared my difficulties.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I told my friends at the Elinor Club how the men who talked with Ella Flagg Young trembled in their boots; it was my idea of a good time to see men afraid of a woman.”

25. “I told my friends at the Elinor Club how the men who talked with Ella Flagg Young trembled in their boots; it was my idea of a good time to see men afraid of a woman.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “It was a mind slavery that kept her so unhappy.”

26. “It was a mind slavery that kept her so unhappy.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “My home life was in every way a retrogression: there was no soul, no love, no intelligence.”

27. “My home life was in every way a retrogression: there was no soul, no love, no intelligence.”

— Gertrude Beasley

Gertrude Beasley Quote: “I meant to stand by my guns until I had either convinced the enemy or been routed by them.”

28. “I meant to stand by my guns until I had either convinced the enemy or been routed by them.”

— Gertrude Beasley

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