Jane Swisshelm - Half a Century (1880)

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Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Jane Swisshelm

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 Negroes.

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It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

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

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

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

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It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

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

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