I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not… — 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, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world. — 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
