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> [If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-stone/if-a-woman-earned-a-dollar-by-scrubbing-her-husband-had-a-right-to/)

[Lucy Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-stone/)

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> [“Once all the needed things were in place, and a new home settled, a woman who earned her own money could give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-jane-stratford/once-all-the-needed-things-were-in-place-and-a-new-home-settled-a/)

[Sarah-Jane Stratford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-jane-stratford/)

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> [ The theory \[before the twentieth century\] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rheta-childe-dorr/the-theory-before-the-twentieth-century-was-that-all-the-jobs-in-the/)

[Rheta Childe Dorr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rheta-childe-dorr/)

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> [“In one study, Hunter found that a lighter-skinned woman earned, on average, twenty-six hundred dollars more a year than her darker sister.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-union/in-one-study-hunter-found-that-a-lighter-skinned-woman-earned-on/)

[Gabrielle Union](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-union/)

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> [“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mokokoma-mokhonoana/many-a-woman-would-not-be-in-a-relationship-with-or-married-to-her/)

[Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

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