We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin. — 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. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share
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 done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share
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 existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share
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
