Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
Jane AddamsOld-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Jane AddamsThe very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.
Jane Addams