Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy? — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
