Let the woman realise this, and at least as many women as men will prefer privation with self-respect to comfort with contempt.

Let us, then, in the name of our common nature, ask those who have her training in hand, to teach the woman to despise the man of menial soul and to loathe the luxury that is his price.
IV I wish to come to the heroic type of Irish Womanhood.

When we need to hearten ourselves or others for a great enterprise, we instinctively turn to the examples of heroes and heroines who, in similar difficulties to ours, have entered the fight bravely, and issued heroically, leaving us a splendid heritage of fidelity and achievement.

It is little to our credit that our heroes are so little known.

It is less to our credit that our heroines are hardly known at all; and when we praise or sing of one our selection is not always the happiest.