"All women should inform themselves of the condition……" — Harriet Martineau
"All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?"
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Harriet Martineau
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37 Quotes by Harriet Martineau
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
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Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and…
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The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
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