Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Co...ngress where women in all their diversity were represented tolerate the countless laws now on the books that discriminate against women in all phases of their lives? Would a Congress with adequate representation of women have allowed this country to reach the 1970s without a national health care system? Would it have permitted this country to rank fourteenth in infant mortality among the developed nations of the world? Would it have allowed the situation we now have in which thousands of kids grow up without decent care because their working mothers have no place to leave them? Would such a Congress condone the continued butchering of young girls and mothers in amateur abortion mills? Would it allow fraudulent packaging and cheating of consumers in supermarkets, department stores and other retail outlets? Would it consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink aw...ay, like frost before the rising sun ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To-day ... when material prosperity and well earned ease and luxury are assured facts from a national standpoint, woman's work and... woman's influence are needed as never before; needed to bring a heart power into this money getting, dollar-worshipping civilization; needed to bring a moral force into the utilitarian motives and interests of the time; needed to stand for God and Home and Native Land versus gain and greed and grasping selfishness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulne...ss, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.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 »
More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman's thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she... will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the "eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from wor...ld affairs, things today might have been different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don'...t you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do women want with votes, when they hold the sceptre of influence with which they can control even votes, if they wield it ar...ight?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »