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"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."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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!"
"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?"
"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!"
"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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