8 Quotes by Judith Ellen Foster

It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world’s work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.