human
Let them rest a while in peace and quietness, and think great thoughts for the future, she wrote Susan.
gpt
It is not well to be in the excitement of public life all the time. Do not keep stirring them up or mourning over their repose. You need rest too. Let the world alone a while. We cannot bring about a moral revolution in a day or a year.
human
There is not one woman left who may be relied on. All have first to please their husbands after which there is little time or energy left to spend in any other direction.... How soon the last standing monuments (yourself and myself, Lydia) will lay down the individual 'shovel and de hoe' and with proper zeal and spirit grasp those of some masculine hand, the mercies and the spirits only know. I declare to you that I distrust the powers of any woman, even of myself to withstand the mighty matrimonial maelstrom!
gpt
I have very weak moments and long to lay my weary head somewhere and nestle my full soul to that of another in full sympathy. I sometimes fear that _I too_ shall faint by the wayside and drop out of the ranks of the faithful few.
human
Mr.--walked home with me; marvelously attentive. What a pity such powers of intellect should lack the moral spine. [103] Her standards of matrimony were high, and she carefully recorded in her diary Lucretia Mott's wise words,
gpt
In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
human
and
gpt
but she justified them in a letter to Mrs. Stanton, who thought as she did,
human
To me it [sex] is not coarse or gross. If it is a fact, there it is.
gpt
This book was carried in my satchel for years and read and reread. The noble words of Elizabeth Barrett, as Wendell Phillips always called her, sunk deep into my heart. I have always cherished it above all other books. I now present it to the Congressional Library with the hope that women may more and more be like Aurora Leigh.
human
Be sure no earnest work Of any honest creature, howbeit weak Imperfect, ill-adapted, fails so much, It is not gathered as a grain of sand To enlarge the sum of human action used For carrying out God's end.... ... let us be content in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
gpt
The honest earnest man must stand and work: The woman also, otherwise she drops At once below the dignity of man, Accepting serfdom. Free men freely work; Who ever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
human
You misconceive the question like a man, Who sees a woman as the complement Of his sex merely. You forget too much That every creature, female as the male, Stands single in responsible act and thought, As also in birth and death. Whoever says To a loyal woman, 'Love and work with me,' Will get fair answers, if the work and love Being good of themselves, are good for her--the best She was born for.
gpt
The True Woman, and as she wrote it out word for word, her thoughts and theories about women, which had been developing through the years, crystallized. In her opinion, the