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You can survive without a label. . . matter a fact, you're better off without one!

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Harriet Martineau

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

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It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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Marriage. . . is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

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