Ellen C. Clayton

“Popular Prejudice, having decided that woman is a poor, weak creature, credulous, easily influenced, holds that she is of necessity timid; that if she were allowed asmuch as a voice in the government of her native country, she would stand appalled ifwar were even hinted at. If it be proved by hard facts that woman is not a poor, weakcreature, then she must be reprimanded as being masculine. To brand a woman as beingmasculine, is supposed to be quite sufficient to drive her cowering back to her embroidery-frame and her lute.””