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“Sex is the fountain of all life, therefore of all power; and what has been the result of human law daring to say in what channel this life may flow if at all? Woman may be thus suppressed, but not man.”
- Lois Waisbrooker,
- 1909, in Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed., Women Without Superstition "No Gods--No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1997)
“Sex ... is the fountain of life, therefore of all power. It follows logically that if the church can control sex she controls everything.”
- Lois Waisbrooker,
- 1909, in Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed., Women Without Superstition "No Gods--No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1997)

(1826 - 1909)