I know you are tired with your four months' work, but it is not half so hard as taking care of a child night and day.

I shall not assume any responsibility for another convention till I have had my ten daughters." But Miss Anthony knew that this "common work," this hiring halls, raising money and advertising meetings was just what nobody else could or would do.

She understood also that while the other women were at home "growing workers," somebody must be in the field looking after the harvest.
Abby Hutchinson, the only sister in the famous family of singers, wrote from their Jersey home, Dawnwood: "I want so much to help you; I have longed to do some good with my voice but public life wears me out very fast." Nevertheless she came and sang for them.

Mrs.Stanton and Mrs.
Brown Blackwell brought new babies into the world a few weeks before the convention, to Miss Anthony's usual discomfiture.

She wrote to the latter: "Mrs.Stanton sends her love to you and says if you are going to have a large family, go right on and finish up as she has done.