Mary Livermore

Thomas Hughes, the author of “Tom Brown at Rugby,” has written a little book called “The Manliness of Christ” It would be an excellent thing if our young men became sufficiently interested in this book to read it.

In short, the training of our boys should be toward manliness, — towards gentle-manliness; so that they will be tender to children, courteous to women, helpful to the unable, and quick to recognize those in need of assistance. They should …

Every boy should have a special fitting for some aim in life. ..Industry is a great means of grace.

The very highest function of woman is to raise and train the family; it is the very highest function of man also.

no phase of the great movement for the advancement of women has progressed so slowly, as that which demands their technical and industrial training.

Health is a means to an end. It is an investment for the future. That end is worthy work and noble living. And life has little to offer the young girl who has dropped into physical deterioration, which cuts her off from the activities of …

Children require simple food, early hours for retiring, and abundance of sleep, as well as freedom from social and religious excitements.

While it is undoubted true that the practice of tight lacing is regarded with growing disfavor, it is also true that the corsets in vogue, at present, are more objectionable than those worn even half a century ago.

Good health is a great prerequisite of successful or happy living.

Nature has so constituted us that the sexes act and react upon each other, making every “woman’s cause” a man’s cause, and every man’s cause a woman’s cause

Obedience to the behests of duty gives peace, even when love is lacking; and peace is a diviner thing than happiness.

“What shall we do with our daughters?” is really the sum and substance of what, I popular phase, is called “the woman question.”

the prophecies of evil always inspired by a growing reform

that grander type of woman, towards which to-day the whole sex is moving, —consciously or unconsciously, willingly or unwillingly, — because the current sets that way, and there is no escape from it.

to working women, as indeed to all women, the ballot is a necessity. It is the only synonym of legal equity that a republican government can know.

The ancient commercial dimensions of the earth are swept away forever, and competition is now world-wide. This will compel the thorough training of American working people in industrial education, based on art and science. We need …

the last statue of w:Anne Whitney, unveiled a few months ago, the ideal statue of the Norseman Leif, the son of Eric, is regarded by man competent critics as the most exquisite work of art that has come from the studio of any American …

The old-time theory that “all men support all women” led to the enactment of laws which gave all the earnings of the married woman to her husband; in most instances gave him control of her property, always legal possession of her person, …

Our social structure has been based on the theory that “all men support all women,” a theory which has never been true, and which is farther from being true to-day than ever before.