“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.” WellsLawYoungGirlOpportunitySocialNaturalPleasurePowerSupportGreaterConditionsHonestSafeAverageSeekingProtectionEnjoymentOccupationExposedTrafficWomanhoodProstitutionAbolishLivelihoodSeducingLiving WageGreater PowerHarpies Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.” MenFirstsWellsRememberHe ManIntellectualDiscussionAttainment Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.” WritingWellsStatesEarthOrderSocialJusticeCommonReadyExpressionInterpretationFeminineMasculineConsensusRipeFraternitySocial Order Author:Anna Garlin Spencer