Respect Quotes by 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