The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973), U.S. suffragist, politician. Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress, ch. 3 (1974).
