Woman's Voice

The American people today may be likened to the onlookers of a great drama. A drama so tremendous, so spectacular, so tragic, that it surpasses anything the mind of man has hith...

The winning of the suffrage states, the work in the states not yet won, the conventions, gatherings and international councils in which women of every nation have come together,...

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 fo...

This is so emphatically the children’s age that a good many of us are thankful that we were not born in it. The little girl who said she wished she had lived in the time of Char...

Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss f...

Love has gone and left me, and the days are all alike; Eat I must and sleep I will,—and would that night were here! But ah!—to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike! Would th...

It is she who makes ready the army when day is at hand, When the bugle of labor is blowing its mighty command, Oh, fierce are the feet of the workers who answer the call, But sw...

Any one who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with exis...

Take down thy stars, O God! We look not up. In vain thou hangest there thy changeless sign. We lift our eyes to power’s glowing cup, Nor care if blood make strong that wizard wi...

Who am I? Only one of the commonest common people, Only a worked-out body, a shriveled and withered soul; What right have I to sing, then? None; and I do not, I cannot. Why ruin...

Too long have I listened to the voices of men; They said they would teach me wisdom— And I am not wise: And now when I listen for the voice of God— I cannot hear it.