There has been many a teacher and philosopher who has sustained some form of this former thesis, disclaiming against the excessive power of women in shaping human affairs.

The teachings of the Christian Church in regard to women, the charge that she keep silent, that she obey, that she be meek and lowly--all grew out of the fear of the power she exercised at the period these teachings were given--a power which the saints believed prejudicial to good order and good morals.

There is more than one profound thinker of our own period who has arraigned her influence--Strindberg and Nietzsche among them.
You cannot turn a page of history that the woman is not on it or behind it.

She is the most subtle and binding thread in the pattern of Human Life! For the American Woman of to-day to allow woman's part in the making of this nation to be belittled is particularly unjust and cowardly.
The American nation in its good and evil is what it is, as much because of its women as because of its men.

The truth of the matter is, there has never been any country, at any time, whatever may have been their social limitations or political disbarments, that women have not ranked with the men in actual capacity and achievement; that is, men and women have risen and fallen together, whatever the apparent conditions.