"Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?"

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"Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?"

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position."

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"Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?"

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"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."

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"In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?"

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"We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society."

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"Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!"

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"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so."

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"Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?"

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"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"

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"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"

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