“The woman’s place is the home.”
Such is a very common reply to those who propound any new schemes for educating or helping women. No one would deny the statement. It is true that those who make it sometimes forget that now-a-days a considerable number of women have no homes, and that therefore the remark by no means meets the whole case.
The Spirit of the Home
By Lucy Re Bartlett
(English contemporary. Author of “Toward Liberty,” from which the following is taken.)
By all means let most women choose the home for their sphere, if they will, and even severely avoid politics for the moment, if they be so minded. But whether in the home, or outside it, let all women consider well what be the spirit they are bringing into life—whether it be one which liberates and uplifts, or one which makes, instead, for bondage.
Lovers of Home
By Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
(In “The Metropolitan Magazine.”)
Every suffragist I have ever met has been a lover of home; and only the conviction that she is fighting for her home, her children, for other women, for all of these, has sustained her in her public work.