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Woman Quotes by Ernestine Rose
- For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
- There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
- I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the…
- All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights…
- 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…
- Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires…
- Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man…
- I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a…
- It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her…
- 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…
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