on was unjust. It is the same with
this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as
to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to
legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the
struggle from love of principle would still work on until the
establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments
derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

She wrote Lydia Mott: "The new encyclopedia is just out and I notice in
regard to Antoinette Brown Blackwell that it gives a full description
of her work up to the time of her marriage, then says: 'She married
Samuel Blackwell and lives near New York.' Not a word of the splendid
work she has done on the platform and in the pulpit since. Thus does
every married woman sink her individuality." This brought from Lydia a
spirited answer:

For my part, when you speak of the individuality of one who is
truly married being inevitably lost, I think you mistake. If there
ever was any individuality it will remain. I don't believe it is
necessary for development that the individual must always force
itself upon us. We naturally fall into the habits and frequently
the train of thought of those we love and I like the expression
"we" rather than "I." I never feel that my interests and actions
can be independent of the dear ones with whom I am surrounded. Even
the one who seems to be most absorbed may, in reality, possess the
strongest soul. This standing alone is not natural and therefore
can not be right. I am sure one of these days you will view this
matter from a different standpoint.

Miss Anthony so far yielded as to reply: "Institutions, among them
marriage, are justly chargeable with many social and individual ills
but, after all, the whole man or woman will rise above them. I am sure
my 'true woman' never will be crushed or dwarfed by them. Woman must
take to her soul a purpose and then make circumstances conform to this
purpose, instead of forever singing the refrain, 'if and if and if!'"
But later when one woman failed to keep a lecture engagement because
her husband wanted her to go somewhere with him, and another because
her husband was not willing she should leave home, she again poured out
her sorrows to her friend:

There is not one woman left who may be relied on, all have "first
to please their husband," after which there is but litt