Matilda Joslyn Gage

04/01/2026

To be totally honest, Matilda Joslyn Gage wasn't worried about birthright citizenship--that wasn't an issue until the current President. She was concerned about states' rights vs. national rights, the ongoing issue of the Civil War, and whether or not the federal government would protect women's right to vote when a state could remove that right. But it seemed like a good quotation for today.

(BTW, she was proud of being from Fayetteville, and never said she was from Syracuse, which many of us do today.)

03/24/2026

09/22/2025

Oz groups are the most fun groups to welcome to the home of Matilda Joslyn Gage!

03/24/2025

Happy 199th birthday! To celebrate, I made a couple of new quotes to share.

12/30/2024

Belief in God doesn’t have to prevent one from knowing the facts of history.

10/31/2024

10/31/2024

Quote from the “Witchcraft” chapter of Gage’s 1893 book Woman, Church and State. In an era when witches were always evil, Gage asserted that a witch could use her powers for good.

10/31/2024

Quote from the “Witchcraft” chapter of Gage’s 1893 book Woman, Church and State. In an era when witches were always evil, Gage asserted that a witch could use her powers for good.

10/31/2024

Quote from the “Witchcraft” chapter of Gage’s 1893 book Woman, Church and State. In an era when witches were always evil, Gage asserted that a witch could use her powers for good. Her son-in-law L. Frank Baum definitely read her work before writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900.

06/13/2024

Sorry about the text-full graphics—I made these for Instagram. Check out on Instagram for more on Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and the only surviving building with an unaltered exterior (that I know of) connected to their groundbreaking work in medicine.

03/24/2024

03/23/2024

This quote sums up all of Gage’s work for women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights and gender freedom, universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, indigenous sovereignty, etc., for herself and humanity, present and future. It’s all about FREEDOM—politically, it’s all about democracy and self-government, as she would call it. Only in a true democracy without religious tyranny can humans have this freedom and the power to enact change through voting.