Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2012 |
| AUTHOR: | C. E. Bowman |
| QUOTATION: | They talk about a woman’s sphere as though it had a limit; There’s not a place in Earth or Heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a blessing or a woe, There’s not a whispered yes or no, There’s not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather’s weight or worth— Without a woman in it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A similar version: They talk about ‘a woman’s sphere’ As though it has a limit; There’s not a spot on sea or shore, In sanctum, office, shop or store, Without a woman in it. Author unknown.—Jennie Day Haines, Sovereign Woman Versus Mere Man, p. 50 (1905). |
| SUBJECTS: | Women |