As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
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
Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year,… — 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.… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
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
