In the Native American tradition ... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he ...helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a whe...el. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.... As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal ...truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make m...otherhood the highest office on the social scale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Eli...zabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Political life in our country has plowed in muddy channels, and needs the infusion of clearer and cleaner waters. I am not sure th...at women are naturally so much better than men that they will clear the stream by the virtue of their womanhood; it is not through sex but through character that the best influence of women upon the life of the nation must be exerted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »