... [the] special relation of ...

... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.
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 Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

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... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
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 Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else.
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 Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.
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 Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi