This is a woman's industry. No man will vote our stock, transact our business, pronounce on women's wages, supervise our factories. Give men whatever work is suitable, but keep the governing power.... Here is a mission, let it be fulfilled.
Amanda Theodosia Jones (1835–1914), U.S. inventor, businesswoman, and psychic. A Psychic's Autobiography, ch. 31 (1910).
In an address to the employees of the Women's Canning and Preserving Company, a successful business which she had founded in Chicago after inventing a canning process.