Jane Swisshelm

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must…

— Jane Swisshelm

I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick…

— Jane Swisshelm

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up…

— Jane Swisshelm

As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness…

— Jane Swisshelm

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain…

— Jane Swisshelm

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was…

— Jane Swisshelm

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

— Jane Swisshelm

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier…

— Jane Swisshelm

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

— Jane Swisshelm

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and…

— Jane Swisshelm

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind…

— Jane Swisshelm

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only…

— Jane Swisshelm

I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years…

— Jane Swisshelm

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

— Jane Swisshelm

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

— Jane Swisshelm

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave…

— Jane Swisshelm

Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year,…

— Jane Swisshelm

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and…

— Jane Swisshelm

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take…

— Jane Swisshelm