People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
