"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

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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."

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"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."

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"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."

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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."

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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."

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"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."

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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"

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