Being and Doing – 18 June – Education of Women
Note: The language of some posts about women are very much of their age and may be seen as victim blaming and mansplaining – even when written by women. Please read them with care.
AS LONG as the women of England refuse to guide and inspire, as long as they forget their nature, and think of pleasure instead of blessing, as long as they shut their ears to the agony of the cities of this land, that they may not be disturbed in their luxury, and literature, and art, so long will men, as they have ever done, take the impulse of their lives from them, and do nothing chivalrous, nothing really self-sacrificing, nothing very noble and persistent, for the blessing of the world.
The regeneration of society is in the power of the woman, and she turns away from it.
All future English generations might call her blessed, and she prefers to be called fashionable.
STOPFORD BROOKE
MEN will always be what women make them; if, therefore, you would have men great and virtuous, impress upon the minds of women what greatness and virtue are.
ROUSSEAU
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These quotes are from ‘Being and Doing’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.
Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1908 for members of the Being and Doing Guild whose object is to do all they can for the relief of suffering and misery.
Most of the writers are 19th Century Christians from Britain and Europe who were committed to living their faith through deeds as well as words – Being AND Doing.
For many years these words have kept me company and encouraged me on the journey of faith. I hope they will encourage others also.
Suffolk Vicar 