Excerpt from In Times Like These Who would not come to hear a woman speak being firmly convinced that it is not natural. Who takes the rather unassailable ground that men are men and women are women. Who answers all arguments by saying, Woman's place is the home and, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, and even sometimes flashes out with the brilliant retort, It would suit those women better to stay at home and darn their children's stockings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.