“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today”
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American activist and social reformer. Born on March 24, 1826, and died on March 18, 1898, Gage is renowned for her relentless pursuit of women's suffrage and gender equality, being a key figure in the American women's rights movement of the 19th century. more
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