Mary Barnett Gilson

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    The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic “dependent,” reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    If Mary came would Mary
    Forgive, as Mothers may,
    And sad and second Saviour
    Furnish us today?
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    Men’s minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)