If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded.… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too,… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
