Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-irritant

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Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 212 pages
"The well known essayist supports extending educational opportunities for women, but opposed the woman suffrage movement. She attacks the view that women are constitutionally weaker than men and limited to the domestic sphere. She calls for liberal education with open occupational opportunities. She did not believe that woman suffrage would solve the problem of economic discrimination and favored indirect political influence for women. Dodge was a teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, later moving to Washington DC and writing under her pseudonym, Mary Abigail Dodge."--Description from Second Life Books, Inc., bookseller
 

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Page 74 - I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.* 1 Sec Proverbial Expressions.
Page 53 - I think the great danger of our day is forcing the intellect of woman beyond what her physical organization will possibly bear.
Page 58 - Todd enumerates, except ad mfinitum; know them, not as well as a chemist knows chemistry or a botanist botany, but as well as they are known by boys of her age and training, as well, indeed, as they are known by many college-taught men, enough, at least, to be a solace and a resource to her; then graduate before she is eighteen, and come out of school as healthy, as fresh, as eager, as she went in.
Page 199 - ... deeper wrong of multiplying children too feeble to be educated," and that "to give life to a sentient being, without being able to make provision to turn life to the best account, — to give life, careless whether it will be bale or boon to the recipient, — is the sin of sins...
Page 28 - ... for about twelve years, almost entirely. The human family is what she makes them. She is the queen of the home, its centre, its light and glory. The home, the home is the fountain of all that is good on earth. If she desires a higher, loftier, nobler trust than this, I know not where she can find it. Mother, wife, daughter, sister, are the tenderest, most endearing words in language. Our mothers train us, and we owe everything to them. Our wives perfect all that is good in us, and no man is ashamed...
Page 54 - Alas! must we crowd education upon our daughters, and for the sake of having them 'intellectual,' make them puny, nervous, and their whole earthly existence a struggle between life and death?
Page 26 - She has a mission — no higher one could be given her — to be the mother, and the former of all the character of the human race. For the first, most important, earthly period of life, the race is committed to her, for about twelve years, almost entirely. The human family is what she makes them. She is the queen of the home, its centre, its light and glory. The home, the home is the fountain of all that is good on earth. If she desires a higher, loftier, nobler trust than this, I know not where...
Page 121 - ... dollars. She brings back the letters, copied in a clear, round hand, but so carelessly and inaccurately, that her work is worthless. Here is a pretty, bright young woman, engaged with a room full of companions in a similar work, and actually boasting that her employers ' can not do any thing with us. They make rules that we are to be here at such times, and to leave the room only at such times, and do only such and such things ; but we will do just as we like ; ' and I am not surprised by and...
Page 51 - As for training young ladies through a long intellectual course, as we do young men, it can never be done, they will die in the process.

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