Clearing Up the MussBy Gertrude Breslau Fuller(American contemporary. Prominent as a Lyceum speaker on social questions.)
By Gertrude Breslau Fuller
(American contemporary. Prominent as a Lyceum speaker on social questions.)
You say politics are too corrupt for women to mix up in? Well, they are pretty bad, there is no doubt about that. You have laid almost everything under heaven onto the women, but this one thing that has been under your own exclusive, masculine domain.
Don’t you know that the principal business of women, all down the ages, has been to go along after the men and clear up the everlasting muss they made? Well, we are still at the same task. Our politics are no more corrupt than our housekeeping would be if we let you run it alone.