Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late f… - Mary C. Ames
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late f…
- Mary C. Ames
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family stat… - Mary C. Ames
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family stat…
The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of … - Mary C. Ames
The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of …
What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy? - Mary C. Ames
What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender hea… - Mary C. Ames
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender hea…
The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as ma… - Mary C. Ames
The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as ma…
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I… - Mary C. Ames
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I…
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. - Mary C. Ames
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. - Mary C. Ames
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
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