The Business of Being a WomanMacmillan, 1912 - 242 lappuses The author "was 'luke-warm in the matter of suffrage.' She preferred ... to stress the social and economic work that women had engaged in during the building of America. She argues in this book that 'women had a business assigned by nature and society which was more important than public life. Women with "bachelor's souls..." are not the women upon whom society depends. They are not the ones who build the nation.'"--Book dealer's description |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 11.
7. lappuse
... beginning of time she has tried each and all of these methods of meeting her purely human woe . At times the women of whole peoples have sunk into apathy , their business reduced to its dullest , grossest forms . Again , whole groups 7 ...
... beginning of time she has tried each and all of these methods of meeting her purely human woe . At times the women of whole peoples have sunk into apathy , their business reduced to its dullest , grossest forms . Again , whole groups 7 ...
34. lappuse
... beginning of the period , over fifty- two thousand at the end . Over eight thousand degrees were given to women in 1910 , nearly half as many as were given to men . Fully four fifths of these women students and graduates have worked ...
... beginning of the period , over fifty- two thousand at the end . Over eight thousand degrees were given to women in 1910 , nearly half as many as were given to men . Fully four fifths of these women students and graduates have worked ...
54. lappuse
... beginning to the end of life she is never permitted to treat it naturally and frankly . As a child accepting all that opens to her as a matter of course , she is steered away from it as if it were something evil . Her first essays at ...
... beginning to the end of life she is never permitted to treat it naturally and frankly . As a child accepting all that opens to her as a matter of course , she is steered away from it as if it were something evil . Her first essays at ...
58. lappuse
... beginning , of a great journey . Too often it is that of the modern Uneasy Woman the attainment of something outside of herself . She visualizes it , as possessions , as ease , a “ good time , " opportunities for self - culture , the ...
... beginning , of a great journey . Too often it is that of the modern Uneasy Woman the attainment of something outside of herself . She visualizes it , as possessions , as ease , a “ good time , " opportunities for self - culture , the ...
101. lappuse
... beginning she may have been willing enough to sacrifice her ideas , later she makes the painful discovery that this hostage to love , as she considered it , has only made her less interesting , less important , both to herself and to ...
... beginning she may have been willing enough to sacrifice her ideas , later she makes the painful discovery that this hostage to love , as she considered it , has only made her less interesting , less important , both to herself and to ...
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14. lappuse - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
132. lappuse - ... monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction which he considers most honorable to himself.
13. lappuse - ... accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.
15. lappuse - He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes and, in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women — the law in all cases going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.
15. lappuse - He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man.
14. lappuse - Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eyes of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
14. lappuse - To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men — both natives and foreigners.
6. lappuse - Tis magic she must have, or prophecy — Home never taught her that — how best to guide Toward peace this thing that sleepeth at her side. And she who, laboring long, shall find some way Whereby her lord may bear with her, nor fray His yoke too fiercely, blessed is the breath That woman draws!
12. lappuse - When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...