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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."


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


"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."


"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."


"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."


"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."


"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."


"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."
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