“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.” YearsChildrenFactsWonderPoetTenItalianWomens RightsMuseBiographers Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.” MindChildrenSelfStatesBodyIndividualMoralSacrificeYouthTrainingMotherhoodPeculiarSpheresHelplessPersonal LifeInfantSympatheticDefectiveMind BodyIndividual LifeMotherly Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.” HumansChildrenHas BeensAgeGrowthIgnoranceWasteWomanhoodDistinctiveExtravagant Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems” ChildrenArtBookSufferingWrittenHusbandPraisePhilosophicUseful Things Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
