Jane Swisshelm Quotes

#1. So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

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#2. As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.

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#3. When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

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#4. It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

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#5. I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

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#6. Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

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#7. It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

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#8. 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.

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#9. A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

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#10. Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

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#11. Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

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#12. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.

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#13. I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

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#16. It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

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