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Lillie Devereux Blake
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“Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.”
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“I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.”
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“... the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.”
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“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.”
Lillie Devereux Blake, U.S. suffragist, reformer, writer
(1833 - 1913)