No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how…
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Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
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No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable,…
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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 impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.” quote by Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f3/mary-corinna-putnam-jacobi-437_affair_the-special-relation-of-women-to-childre_2420071.jpg)
