Women, Like Men, Must Be

Who Is Apt, On Occasion, To Assign A Multitude Of Reasons When One Will Do? This Is A Sure Sign Of Weakness In Argument.

Must Love Be Ever Treated With Profaneness As A Mere Illusion? Or With Coarseness As A Mere Impulse? Or With Fear As A Mere Disease? Or With Shame As A Mere Weakness? Or With Levity As A Mere Accident? Whereas It Is A Great Mystery And A Great Necessity, Lying At The Foundation Of Human Existence, Morality, And Happiness,--mysterious, Universal, Inevitable As Death.

During The Present Interval Between The Feudal Age And The Coming Time, When Life And Its Occupations Will Be Freely Thrown Open To Women As To Men, The Condition Of The Female Working Classes Is Such That If Its Sufferings Were But Made Known, Emotions Of Horror And Shame Would Tremble Through The Whole Of Society.

Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring Modesty. If It Be So, Let The Modesty Succumb. It Can Be Only A False Modesty Which Can Be Thus Endangered.

It Never Enters The Lady's Head That The Wet-nurse's Baby Probably Dies.