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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 3 (search)
ways been at a great disadvantage in training or education is also true, but it is a secondary matter. The real disadvantage of women has lain in being systematically taught from childhood up that it is their highest duty to efface themselves, or at least keep out of sight. One can overcome great obstacles as to education, but to do anything remarkable without running the risk of being conspicuous-this would puzzle the most skilful. Fame is the shadow of great action. Now nobody but Peter Schlemihl ever succeeded in living without his shadow, and it is not recorded that even he enjoyed that situation. It would be easy to show by a long series of examples the eager desire of men, especially the mediocre ones, that women should remain invisible. It was the Latin epitaph upon the model woman that she stayed at home and spun--Domum servavit, lanam fecit. It is a motto which Mr. Newell, the scientific explorer of nursery rhymes, would perhaps find preserved in Mrs. Mouse's answer
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
236. Romola, 260. Routledge, George, 18, 19. Royalty, childishness of, 21, 105. royalty, the toy of, 105. Rudder Grange quoted, 42. Ruskin, John, quoted, 100. S. St. Leonards, Lord, 138. Saints, vacations for, 33. Salem sea-captains, youthfulness of, 247. Sales-ladies, 172. Salisbury, Lord, 136. Salmon, L. M., 287. Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A. Sanitary Commission, the, 235. Santa Claus agencies, 269. Sappho, 262. Sapsea, Thomas, 94. Schlemihl, Peter, 12. Scott, Sir, Walter, quoted 55. Also 19,157,194. Scudery, Charles de, 15. Scudery, Magdalen de, quoted, 15, 87, 159. search after A publisher, the, 151. secret of the birthday, 176. Sedgwick, C. M., 289. Seward, Anna, 113, 114. shadow of the harem, the, 12. Shakespeare, William, quoted, 56,91, 177, 178, 239. Also 19, 32, 49, 55, 102, 103, 108, 262. Shelley, P. B., 19. shy graces, the, 306. sick, on visiting the, 227. Siddons, Sarah, 250. Simms, W. G.,