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Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Biography

Physician

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi was an accomplished American physician, born on August 31, 1842, and died on June 10, 1906. She is renowned for her contributions to the fields of gynecology and public health.

Persons Speak Felt Masters Males Jew Immigrants Italian American Woman Hungarians

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.”

World Heart Children Certain Values Felt Special Relation Sacred Affair Motherhood Tendencies Impress Public Affairs

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.”

People Class Sane Excluded Suffrage Woman Suffrage

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else.”

Thinking Men Sex Sexism Attributes Accustomed Possessing Think Of Me Having Sex

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.”

Men Sex Virtue One Thing Sexism Attributes Primitive Male Dominance

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.”

“... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Social Sex Responsibility Influence Danger Degrees Dignity Proportion Inverse

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”

Men Long Has Beens Age Form Class Cease Companion Submit Inferiors Sovereignty Indignity

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.”

Ideas Whole Facts Existence Ideals Abstract

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

About the Author

Born: August 31, 1842
Died: June 10, 1906
Known for: Physician
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