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“Women do not write books about men—a fact that I could not help welcome with relief, for if I had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set pen to paper.”

“He appealed to the very deep, ancient and complex emotion which we may, as amateurs, call the womanhood emotion. To take money was
beneath her he said; if she took money she would lower herself in the eyes of almost everybody. Tom being a man would not be lowered; it was her sex that made the difference. He appealed to her womanhood.”

“The case of Mr Jex-Blake shows that the daughter must not on any account be allowed to make money because if she makes money she will be independent of her father and free to marry any man she chooses. Therefore the daughter's desire to earn her living rouses two different forms of jealousy. Each is strong separately; together they are very strong.”

“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
let queen virginia COOK

she must press for a wage to be paid to the mothers of educated men. The importance of this is immeasurable; its the most effective way in which we can ensure that the large and very honourable class of married women shall have a mind and a will of their own, with which, if his mind and will are good in her eyes, to support her husband, if bad to resist him, in any case to cease to be his woman' and to be her self.

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” and exactlyyyyy

imagine having this level of awareness and wit