Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of soc...iety, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman's happiness and development are of more importance than all man's institutions. If constitutions and statute laws stand in t...he way of woman's emancipation, they must be amended to meet her wants and needs, of which she is a better judge than man possibly can be. If church canons and scriptures do not admit of women's equal recognition in all the sacred offices, then they must be revised in harmony with that idea. If the present family life is necessarily based on man's headship, then we must build a new domestic altar, at which the mother shall have equal dignity, honor and power; and we do not propose to wait another century to secure all this; the time has come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »