The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

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I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely...

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely...

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you...

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you...

A race cannot be purified from without.

A race cannot be purified from without.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than...

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than...

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct...

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct...

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him,...

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him,...

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v....

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v....

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and...