White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then th...ey owned both their wives and their wages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[On Harvard President Charles William Eliot's lamentation that the average Harvard graduate had fewer than two children:] That is ...quite enough. Harvard graduates do not always make the best fathers. Why should we be agitated over the too small families of the rich when there are so many children of the poor that are not cared for? The rich should make it their duty to raise up these children to a higher standard.... Men of the world hate to give up their tobacco, liquor, sports, clubs, their luxurious habits, their freedom from responsibility. They prefer to flock together and so women are compelled to do the same. President Eliot talks as though the young women were sitting around anxiously and aimlessly waiting for the graduates to come and get them. He would find, if he should make the proper investigation, that a class of women is being developed who are demanding a higher standard of morals in men than did those of past generations, and if they cannot get husbands who reach this standard they are making very satisfactory careers for themselves outside of marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; what... we object to is his crucifying his wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinster...s. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career.... I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of bot...h sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »