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. But so are horses.
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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 Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Permalink to quote #5 There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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