Jane Grey Swisshelm

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    You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of your own to account for; M a mind of your own to improve. When you once get these ideas fixed, and learn to act upon them, no man or set of men, no laws, customs, or combinations of them can seriously oppress you.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Nature must change her plan
    Ere you can be a man.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    It is an old adage, “All is fair in love as in war,” but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside in the White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)