non-self-reliant

Updated: June 18, 2025

A quotation from the Rondout Courier will illustrate: At the appointed hour a lady, unattended and unheralded, quietly glided in and ascended the platform. She was as easy and self-possessed as a lady should always be when performing a plain duty, even under 600 curious eyes. Her situation would have been trying to a non-self-reliant woman, for there was no volunteer co-operator.

Ida Husted Harper - The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her: Contemporaries During Fifty Years