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Famous Ernestine Rose Quotes

“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 as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

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Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
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“But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.”

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Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
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