White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

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Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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