Cora Anderson quotes

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The world is made by man--for man alone. I, who have lived as a man among men, realize it. I, who have talked with men as a man, k... - MORE The world is made by man--for man alone. I, who have lived as a man among men, realize it. I, who have talked with men as a man, know it. And whatever man may say about "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," they know that nothing rules men but their desires and there is no ruler in this world but sex.
With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are alwa... - MORE With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are always surrounded by the most terrible temptation. Oh, I know that some of [the] greatest reformers insist that a girl's virtue is not affected by under-nourishment, disease and nervous collapse; but if these well housed, well fed, well dressed people were put in a dirty, ugly room, if their clothes did not protect them from the cold, if their stomachs were never filled, would not even the staunchest lose some of her self-respect when looking forward to an old age? It is only a matter of wonder to me that so many girls keep clean and decent through it all.
When I started out as a nurse I did so with the highest ideals.... But I found that steady work in my profession--like every woman... - MORE When I started out as a nurse I did so with the highest ideals.... But I found that steady work in my profession--like every woman's work in the world--depended upon the giving of myself.... Two-thirds of the physicians I met made a nurse's virtue the price of their influence in getting her steady work. Is it any wonder that I determined to become a member of this privileged sex, if possible?
The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave. The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave.
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