Even the one who seems to be most absorbed may, in reality, possess the strongest soul.

This standing alone is not natural and therefore can not be right.

I am sure one of these days you will view this matter from a different standpoint.
Miss Anthony so far yielded as to reply: "Institutions, among them marriage, are justly chargeable with many social and individual ills but, after all, the whole man or woman will rise above them.

I am sure my 'true woman' never will be crushed or dwarfed by them.

Woman must take to her soul a purpose and then make circumstances conform to this purpose, instead of forever singing the refrain, 'if and if and if!'" But later when one woman failed to keep a lecture engagement because her husband wanted her to go somewhere with him, and another because her husband was not willing she should leave home, she again poured out her sorrows to her friend: There is not one woman left who may be relied on, all have "first to please their husband," after which there is but little time or energy left to spend in any other direction.