I am a troublesome, aggressive, revolutionary person.

I want to do away with that common confusion of the words womanly and womanish, and I see very clearly that this can only be effected by an armed movement, an invasion by women of the spheres which men have always forbidden us to enter.

I am strenuously opposed to that view of us set forth in such charming language by Mr.Ruskin--for it tells on the side of those men who think and speak of us in a way the reverse of charming.

Were we living in an ideal world, I think women would not go to sit all day in offices.

But the fact is that we live in a world as far from ideal as can be conceived.