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“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.”

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Author:Marie de Gournay

“The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.”

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Book:A Woman at Thirty

Source: A Woman at Thirty

“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”

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Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.”

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Book:Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede

Source: Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede

“I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.”