Heiress Quotes by Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas… the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi