Note 11 — Chapter VII · THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT UPON MOTHERHOOD
Mamah Bouton Borthwick translation
The best proof of this is that many women who, in a life free from care in an outward sense, were comparable only to geese or peacocks, nevertheless, when hard times came and gave them opportunity to develop their power of love, not only proved themselves heroines, but asserted that their “happy” years were those in which they had so “sacrificed” themselves.