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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

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"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

Woman

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."

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