The Principle Of Subordination Is The Great

The Delicate And Infirm Go For Sympathy, Not To The Well And Buoyant, But To Those Who Have Suffered Like Themselves.

The Ability To Secure An Independent Livelihood And Honorable Employ Suited To Her Education And Capacities Is The Only True Foundation Of The Social Elevation Of Woman, Even In The Very Highest Classes Of Society. While She Continues To Be Educated Only To Be Somebody's Wife, And Is Left Without Any Aim In Life Till That Somebody Either In Love, Or In Pity, Or In Selfish Regard At Last Grants Her The Opportunity, She Can Never Be Truly Independent.

If All Females Were Not Only Well Educated Themselves But Were Prepared To Communicate In An Easy Manner Their Stores Of Knowledge To Others; If They Not Only Knew How To Regulate Their Own Minds, Tempers, And Habits But How To Effect Improvements In Those Around Them, The Face Of Society Would Be Speedily Changed.

... It Is The Right And Duty Of Every Woman To Employ The Power Of Organization And Agitation In Order To Gain Those Advantages Which Are Given To The One Sex And Unjustly Withheld From The Other.

... So Large A Portion Of Those Who Hold Much Capital, Instead Of Using Their Various Advantages For The Greatest Good Of Those Around Them, Employ The Chief Of Them For Mere Selfish Indulgences; Thus Inflicting As Much Mischief On Themselves, As Results To Others From Their Culpable Neglect. A Great Portion Of The Rich Seem To Be Acting On The Principle, That The More God Bestows On Them, The Less Are They Under Obligation To Practise Any Self-denial, In Fulfilling His Benevolent Plan Of Raising Our Race To Intelligence And Holiness.