“Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.” WayGirlTeachGracePaceSurprisingWomanhoodTrue Womanhood Author:Elmina Shepard Taylor
“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
“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.” YearsStatesGirlWorkReadyActivityCapableHundredIdealsWomanhoodEarnestDescendantsDreamySturdyHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Lucy Larcom