I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.


Book Three, Chapter XII. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,...

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,...

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,...

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,...