... we are not dreamers or fanatics; and we know that the ballot when we get it, will achieve for woman no more than it has achiev...ed for man.... The ballot is not even half the loaf; it is only a crust--a crumb. The ballot touches only those interests, either of women or men, which take their root in political questions. But woman's chief discontent is not with her political, but with her social, and particularly her marital bondage. The solemn and profound question of marriage ... [ellipsis in source] is of more vital consequence to woman's welfare, reaches down to a deeper depth in woman's heart, and more thoroughly constitutes the core of the woman's movement, than any such superficial and fragmentary question as woman's suffrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At my back I hear the word--"homosexual"--and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another,... that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back- door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carr...ying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber ass...ails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »