"Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after."

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... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi