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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/if-i-wrote-at-all-i-must-throw-myself-headlong-into-the-great/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

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## More by Jane Swisshelm

> [I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/i-must-be-the-mate-of-the-man-i-had-chosen-and-if-he-would-not-come/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/i-had-gone-into-the-hospital-with-the-stupid-notion-that-its-primary/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/if-i-wrote-at-all-i-must-throw-myself-headlong-into-the-great/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/as-our-boys-and-men-are-all-expecting-to-be-presidents-so-our-girls/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/let-the-erring-sisters-depart-in-peace-the-idea-of-getting-up-a-civil/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/the-diagnosis-of-drunkenness-was-that-it-was-a-disease-for-which-the/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/when-a-woman-starts-out-in-the-world-on-a-mission-secular-or/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/it-appears-to-be-a-matter-of-national-pride-that-the-president-is-to/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/girls-do-not-scrub-and-cook-and-scour-until-you-have-no-time-left-to/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/a-woman-with-her-two-children-was-captured-on-the-steps-of-the/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/i-cannot-tell-what-i-am-as-much-afraid-of-as-a-woman-who-invariably/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/it-is-an-old-adage-all-is-fair-in-love-as-in-war-but-i-thought-not-of/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/i-put-away-my-brushes-resolutely-crucified-my-divine-gift-and-while/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/so-instead-of-spending-my-strength-quarreling-with-the-hand-i-would/)

[Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/)

> [Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/abolitionists-were-men-of-sharp-angles-organizing-them-was-like/)

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