The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
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Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.Ernestine Rose
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
Ernestine Rose
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Ernestine Rose
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
Ernestine Rose
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Ernestine Rose
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Ernestine Rose
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