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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Women and Economics (1898)
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Women and Economics (1898)
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Women and Economics (1898)
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Women and Economics (1898)
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America, to say nothing of other countries, who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
Women and Economics (1898)
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
Women and Economics (1898)