Flora Tristan Professions : WriterBorn : April 7, 1803Died : November 14, 1844 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Flora Tristan Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her! Flora Tristan rightslawmen With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them. Flora Tristan tavernsunionshands The Woman is the Proletarian of the Proletariat Flora Tristan proletariat Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime. Flora Tristan organizationbearsdoe What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. Flora Tristan slaveryenglandintellectual Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
