Woman's work in America

by Unknown

BY

HELEN GRAY CONE.

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue

That says my hand a needle better fits.

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Men can do best, and women know it well.

Pre-eminence in each and all is yours,

Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours.”

—Anne Bradstreet, 1640.

“Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman.”