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“even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.”

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