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Josephine Kirby Henry

  • “Women are a very small factor in Holy Writ, as but one-eleventh of the Bible refers to them at all, and in the interest of justice and good morals it is a pity much of that was ever written.”

    • Josephine Kirby Henry,
    • 1905, in Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed., Women Without Superstition "No Gods--No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ()

Josephine Kirby Henry, U.S. women's rights leader, suffragist, social reformer, writer

(1846 - 1928)