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PART I

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.… The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley, from his 1873 opinion in Bradwell v. Illinois, denying Mrs. Myra Bradwell the right to practice law

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The Four Ms. Bradwells

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