Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.
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... this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.Susan Brownell Anthony
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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I can see that 'reap' and 'deep,' 'prayers' and 'bears,' ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
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Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
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It was we, the people not we, the white male citizens nor yet we, the male citizens but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
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