The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Permalink to quote #2 To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize …
Permalink to quote #3 The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society…
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