“MRS. [Cora] Seabury avers that where woman is, homes will naturally exist. Homes have not existed ‘naturally.’ There was a long, long time in human history when not a dream of a home existed. From lawless individualism to tribal life, from tribe to clan, from the clan, at last, through mighty struggles, the family was evolved — the final grouping of the race — the social unit. That point was not reached until man the savage, man the rover, had consented to be bound, and bound for life, to one woman. It has been one object of Christian civilization to hold man to this saving compact. First to hold his spirit by affection for wife and child, and next to hold his material interests for the sake of society. The work has so well progressed that to-day the man’s family is dearer to him than his own life. He will live for them, and fight for them; and the women who proclaim that man is woman’s enemy, are the assassins of their own peace and of the growing peace of home.”

— Helen Kendrick Johnson

Woman and the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates, 1897

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