The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of ...that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body o...r moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown... far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of... fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own p...ersonality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to "show what he was meant to become."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed... by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restriction...s, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No record ... can ... name the women of talent who were so submerged by child- bearing and its duties, and by "general housework,"... that they had to leave their poems and stories all unwritten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better so...cial protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these--but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the w...ay of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »