If you work five minutes, you succeed five minutes’ worth; if you work five hours, you succeed five hours’ worth. Plenty have natural voices equal to mine, but I have worked.
Woman and Social Betterment
By Ellen H. Richards, A. M.
(Author of “The Cost of Living.” From Introduction to “The Woman Who Spends.”)
Social economics is preeminently a woman’s problem, especially if Münsterberg’s assertion is widely true that in America it is the women who have the leisure and the cultivation to direct the development of social conditions. With this opportunity comes corresponding responsibilities.
Woman and the Dinner Pail
By Eva Gore-Booth
(From “The Case for Woman Suffrage.”)
The rich may say that women should stay at home and cook the dinner; the poor know that if women did stay at home there would often be no dinner to cook.