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Judith Ellen Foster

(1840–1910) Lawyer

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Judith Ellen Foster was a lawyer.

Quick Facts About Judith Ellen Foster

Born: January 1, 1840
Died: January 1, 1910
Profession: Lawyer
Notable works: Constitutional Amendment Manual: Containing Argument, Appeal, Petitions, Forms of Constitution ..

About Judith Ellen Foster

Judith Ellen Horton Foster was an American lecturer, temperance worker, suffragist, and lawyer. She is thought to be the first woman in Iowa who was actually engaged in practice and the fourth woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Iowa. In her time she was known as "The Iowa Lawyer".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Judith Ellen Foster

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as…

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Civilization

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The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind…

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Blind

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The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at…

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Any

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Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

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Action

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...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes…

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Bewildered

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The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at…

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Country

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It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who…

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Bears

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