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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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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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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."
"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?"
"From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other."
"It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still."
"Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position."
"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!"
"Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy."
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