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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

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No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

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If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 15th, 1820

Died: March 13th, 1906

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