“Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.” WorldShouldYearsMeanMadeWorkBeautyDoorsWeakShould HaveEmploymentCompetitorsGreat WorkWorkshopsVery MeanUnderpaidPrettiness Author:Jane Swisshelm
“We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.” MayMadeIdeasLightWomenRocksMaterialsFoolBreathsBlowRuinsSexismKnaves Author:Jane Swisshelm
“The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.” WayMadeCareLyingGivenEasyWifeEffectsProduceDiseaseResponsiblePatientInventionCuresPermanentFalsehoodPledgeCapsDiagnosisEpidemicsDrunkennessSigningPatentsSaloonsPerjuryForgeryAprons Author:Jane Swisshelm
