Venus because she is
Venus, though Venus be a suffragist.

A political education will provide woman with new means for gaining the
respect and admiration of man. Woman will realize that her duty does
not merely consist in giving sons and daughters to the fatherland,
but in educating and training them in such a manner that from their
childhood on they will take interest in everything tending to improve
social conditions, and in inspiring them with the desire to devote
their efforts to a certain cause or party, for the best of their
people. Public opinion will become much broader and stronger when
it shall reflect the sentiments of our women, who are at present
a passive element where the duties of citizenship are concerned;
and when in her dark hours the nation shall need assistance, she will
receive it not only from her citizens, but also from her citizenesses,
who will not be ignorant and inexperienced in the tasks and duties
confronting the people, but will be accustomed to the discipline of
organization and to the calls of the public service.

There is no doubt, of course, that it is greatly to the advantage of
man to maintain woman in ignorance, not only with regard to politics,
but also where other matters are concerned. For one thing, it renders
it easier for man to satisfy his whims and make of woman a toy which he
can use or drop according to his fancy. She is obedient, submissive,
and resigned; she never discusses or argues; she obeys and serves
in silence, like a beautiful piece of furniture, differing from the
rest only in that she is animate; she is a delightful doll because
she can speak and has a little sense. I know that this is the ideal
of many men, for the only reason that it suits their convenience.

But that is not woman as she should be; the woman that our century has
redeemed from ignorance and slavery; the woman whom God has endowed
with an intellect, a will and a heart, hers to cultivate and perfect
in order that she may be not the servant of man, but his companion,
not the subject of the king, but the queen enthroned by his side,
to be his faithful and constant ally from the cradle to the grave,
in prosperity and adversity, not only in the intimacy of the home,
but also in the wide arena of public life. Man and woman were created
to mate and to understand and love each other, to work, suffer, and
struggle side by side for all that is good and beautiful in life,
to perpetuate the sovereignty o