Is there nothing then worth living for, but to be petted, humored and caressed, by a man? That is all very well as far as it goes, but that man is the only thing in existence worth living for [,] I fail to see. All honor and reverence to good men; but they and their attention are not the only sources of happiness on the earth, and need not fill up every thought of women. And when men see that women can exist without their being constantly at hand, that they can learn to be self-reliant or depend upon each other for more or less happiness, it will perhaps take a little of the conceit out of some of them.
Emmeline B. Wells
Woman's Exponent 3 (Sept. 30 1874): 67
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