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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
perhaps, be overcome, if the social prejudice which discourages women would only reward proportionately those who surmount the discouragement. The more obstacles, the more glory, if society would only pay in proportion to the labor; but it does not. Women being denied, not merely the training which prepares for great deeds, but the praise and compensation which follow them, have been weakened in both directions. The career of eminent men ordinarily begins with college and the memories of Miltiades, and ends with fortune and fame: woman begins under discouragement, and ends beneath the same. Single, she works with half preparation and half pay; married, she puts name and wages into the keeping of her husband, shrinks into John Smith's lady during life, and John Smith's relict on her tombstone; and still the world wonders that her deeds, like her opportunities, are inferior. Evidently, then, the advocates of woman's claimsthose who hold that the virtues of the man and the woman are