... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon w…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rud…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of I…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over …

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothin…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class b…

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi