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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."


"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother."
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