Woman's Voice: An Anthology
Collected in the aftermath of the Great War, this anthology gathers writings from women who refused to be silent any longer. Here are suffragists arguing for the vote with lucid ferocity, laborers demanding recognition for work society preferred not to see, and mothers articulating what it meant to raise the next generation in a world that had not yet made room for them. The voices are varied: some angry, some measured, some tender, but all united in asserting that women's perspectives are not optional additions to civic life but essential foundations for any just society. Published in 1918, when the political landscape was shifting beneath women's feet, this collection served as both archive and manifesto, a way of proving that the fight for equality had a history and a chorus. Reading it now is to hear a century-old conversation that, unfortunately, remains startlingly relevant.
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“A healer is someone whose hand the patient wants to hold.””
— Unknown
“I will not be satisfied with playing doctor! Not like other so-called health professionals who treat their patients with disdain!! Doctors are healers! They shouldn't act like judges or cops! What kind of doctor do you want to be, huh? A healer or a cop?””
— Unknown
“You will not stop them from dying. At best, you will stop them from dying today.””
— Unknown
“What a woman is feeling is much more important than what you know... Every time that you interrupt a patient, you are preventing her from speaking her truth, and you make her doubt herself.””
— Unknown
“Medical textbooks never talk about the pain that's caused by anything that doctors do... And many doctors think that the pain is justified "if it's for the patient's good." That is never true. The least we can do, as healers, is everything in our power not to cause pain.””
— Unknown
“If a woman is asking for birth control, it's because she needs it. The request itself is enough.””
— Unknown
“Women's sexual activity is none of our business. If they themselves volunteer the information freely, then fine. But what right do we have to know straightaway who they're fucking, how often, and in what positions?””
— Unknown
“Doctors who want power will do anything to get it; healers will do anything to get away from it.””
— Unknown
“Share what you know. Your patients will repay you hundredfold.””
— Unknown
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