Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.
Mary Abigail Dodge (1871). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.289
