If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any ot… - Jane Swisshelm
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any ot…
- Jane Swisshelm
Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible. - Jane Swisshelm
Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes … - Jane Swisshelm
Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes …
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. - Jane Swisshelm
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home. - Jane Swisshelm
When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.
It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch. - Jane Swisshelm
It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and … - Jane Swisshelm
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and …
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin. - Jane Swisshelm
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get … - Jane Swisshelm
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get …
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