No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
In plain words
Mitchell told women never to say 'I am only a woman'. Being a woman was already something to be proud of.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals (comp. Phebe Mitchell Kendall, 1896) — Project Gutenberg #10202, dated 1874 in her own notes, from her Vassar teaching years.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals (comp. Phebe Mitchell Kendall, 1896) — Project Gutenberg #10202
- 1874 · Vassar College · from her Vassar teaching notes on women and self-worth
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